Stupidity 101

Stop and Stare

Ok, so maybe the rest of the lyrics really have nothing to do with this story....but that one line, 'stop and stare', describes it perfectly.

(By the way, LOVE the song :P )

So!

How many of you out there have ever engaged in an activity often referred-to as "people-watching"?

It's when you just sit back, and stare at the people that pass you...or that you see in general.

Yeah, that's basically all...

Pretty entertaining, if you ask me.

So be honest, how many of you have creepily checked or stared at complete strangers?

If you can't honestly answer "I" to the question above, I really do suggest you try it out some time. Preferrably (for you), with a friend. Everyone knows you only look half-as-stupid if there's someone else by your side, doing the same thing!

But back to the story.

T and I (R) came home from a grueling and extra-long band practice. (No...not really, we're just generally lazy and hungry people, and happened to have stuffed ourselves with fries and chicken fingers from some pizza place, just a few minutes before.) And decided to share a can of Sprite, whilst relaxed and stretched out on my (R's) driveway.

Yes. Mark my words. WE

ARE

LOSERS.

Period.

BUUUUUUUUT... nonetheless, we decided it'd be a great idea! Fortunately for us, it was a warm day, so our seat on the driveway was pretty comfy. After having kicked off our shoes, and found a nice place to stretch out under the sun, we decided to entertain ourselves with a game of...PEOPLE-WATCHING!

There were the typical clueless pedestrians. The "WTF are they doing?", curious neighbors. The breaking-like-half-the-driving-laws drivers, speeding off into the sunset. The always-rushing-off-somewhere mothers with their little children, dogs and baby carriages surrounding them like a wall from the real world..

And then, there were the guys.

Cute guys, to be more specific.

Screw those people who say that staring is rude. Staring happens to be a great way to show your attraction (or repulsion) to another being's external make-up. Or, looks. 

Does that make sense?

I hope so. But, whatever.

And OBVIOUSLY, the only way to show even MORE appreciation towards good-looking faces, is to just come up to them, and outright OGGLE THEM.

And this, my friends, is where our creative juices kicked in.

I mean, after all, even we had enough sense not to just run across the street to get a better look at three good-looking-from-here-we-need-to-get-closer-for-a-better-look guys walking down the other side of the street, towards us.

Luckily, directly in front of us, there was a bus stop - one of those complete with a little glass (or plastic...not sure) dome, and benches, and, of course, a garbage can.

We are actually very eco-friendly people! And us being the thoughtful people we are, we agreed that it would be best for the planet - and I guess in the end, all of human (and other) kind - to throw that empty Sprite can away....into the garbage beside the bus stop...that the three guys will just happen to be passing by in a few moments.

So go to the garbage bin, we did - all in our shoe-less half-running-half-speed-walking glory.

And we reached it just as the guys did.

Two of them were walking, and one was on his bike.

And yes, all of them were actually very good-looking, if we say so ourselves.

I mean, call me shallow, but I admit that I do enjoy the simple things in life...like guy who is good-looking enough to stare open-mouthedly at ;)

But what you should know, is that T and I, we don't do anything half-heartedly. No, we must add a certain pizazz to every one of our schemes.

SOOOOOOOO....we froze. Like, an actual wide-eyes-no-breathing-look-like-a-frightened-rabbit kinda stare. And the guys stopped too. I'm pretty sure it was more of a shocked "wadda-heck are they doing?" type of halt, but they stopped nonetheless.

And then, we all just stared at each other. I looked at the biker dude, and realized he was staring at T, then my eyes skimmed over the middle guy, who seemed to be totally oblivious to his surroundings, and landed on the guy on the third guy, who was staring at me.

T, as I later found out, ended up doing the opposite, looking first at the last guy, who she saw was looking at me, skimming over the middle guy (poor kid, no one wants to stare at him :P) and making eye-contact with the biker.

And then, something clicked, and we both just sprinted across road, back to the safety of my driveway....well, not really, but we did run back :P

What didn't actually occur to us until like a week later, was the fact that we probably looked like (shoeless, mind you) idiots who didn't have a garbage can at home. Probably not the smartest move to walk into a houe right after running across the street to throw something away, eh?

But the lesson is, next time you see a pretty person, just...

STOP AND STARE ;)