People Watching

Well, as an aspiring writer, we have to people watch all of the time. People will think that we are strange or weird for doing so, but how do you think some of the greatest books in the world get written.

I like to watch people as they come and go in the mall or in any other places but it really makes me dizzy. There's one time I was watching a classy fashionable woman who passed by me. My attention was focused on her that I almost ate the paper at the bottom of an ice cream. I was so ashamed because there's one guy who noticed what I did. I love watching women who wear clothes fashionably. It makes me speechless.I wish I am like them.lol

Yes, I like to people watch and also to animal watch, especially wild little things like squirrels in a forest. It is sort of fun to watch people win money in casinos. I don't gamble as much as I go to eat. Watching people in the buffets can be gross, though, because of the way some people wolf down the food!

This is what I like to do most of the time. I watch people whenever I am out of the house. It's kind of interesting to watch what people do and their reactions. Even when they are far away, I would always wonder to myself what could they be talking about.

I have no special place where I like to watch them, am always observing. Abroad is the most interesting but I also get a lot of info over here. Can't say I saw really funny stories, more how people manipulate, use others to make them do things without knowing, be aware of it or any shame. I always wonder how come so many people don't notice it. Perhaps it happens everywhere around us even with very small things?

Yes, I love to people watch. It's so much fun. When I was younger our town would have all the stores stay open late on Friday night. And that was the past time. To go and sit and people watch.

I find that the best place for people watching is at an outdoor cafe in a really really big city like Toronto. ;)

Hi Anne, When I go to shopping centers I see the beautiful girls. I feel pleasure to observe pretty ladies. I think it's a natural tendency.

Sometimes it is fun to just sit there if you are at the mall and you are getting tired from shopping and so you find a bench to sit on and just watch the people.

I actually do like to people watch. I observe all sorts of things. i do not usually just sit like in a mall or park and watch. I do observe those around me as I am doing my own shopping. It's always interesting how they interact (and sometimes disturbing) and the types of things they purchase.

Hahah... nice discussion but I always watch people but people not watch me. Because I never give the chance to watch the people to me if anyone seeing my side and if my attention give their side I ask what happened why you are watching again and again any problem or you need some help then the person not see me ahha...

I have been an avid people-watcher all my life and will continue to be so. There is nothing as fascinating as human behaviour and dress-sense. I also like to see how they react to each other, whether they are quietly-spoken or shout as if the whole world is deaf! Having been a teacher, I also like to see how adults behave around children and whether they are good examples for them or bad.

I like to people watch in Las Vegas. There are so many people from so many different parts of the world, and you get to see how each reacts to the sights and sounds there. I have been there many times, so I tend to have a specific place I want to go and head their directly. However you can tell the many people who are first time visitors because they tend to stop and point out everything along the way, snapping photographs and taking video. It's really a great place to be!

Whenever I travel, whether domestic or international, I get amused at the way people from different cultural contexts conduct themselves. Overseas travel generally has been business combined with pleasure. Starting with the way groups of people of different ethnicity and continents behave at the airports, while embarking & disembarking as well as on board during travel is an interesting observation I do not miss. Different types of behavior is a good study in understanding & analyzing human psychology. There are people who just remain oblivious of everything and maintain absolute stoic silence no matter the journey is some twenty hours long. They just remain couched in a corner, may be with some book & themselves. Then there are the types who demand all attention for them all the time and try throwing tantrums just to throw their weight around under an illusion that other people perceive them as being very important. On a trip to US in 2003 for a three week training, we were a batch of people from many Asian, African, Russian and Latin American countries. There was this Russian girl-I have her name still distinct in memory: Ludmila Kozanova- who was such a hungry girl, it made me think what could have been wrong with her. She was a voracious eater for her frail frame!. Before the sessions started every one would take a good buffet breakfast and so would she. But the moment she entered the program hall, she would grab some cookies & fruits for constant feeding through the sessions. And again at lunch time, she would grab any stuff that was still at the side table. Poor Ludmila, could never get herself full & satiated. There are many more such special people I have met while traveling out. There was another Mongolean girl in another program, but I'll refrain from going on & on about my people watching with so much already a rant!

I love to people watch. It became especially interesting after I studied a book called Body Language. It's a fascinating study and you can see all sorts of things when people interact when you know what to look for. I used to get bored travelling to work on the train. I would always sit in the compartment where the passengers sat on a long row of seats facing each other. I would deliberately do the biggest yawn...with sound effects... and then sit back and watch to see how many people followed suit...you know what it's like...someone yawns and it sets off a chain reaction. I could amuse myself this way for some time.

I used to work with a woman who liked to go out to the airport and look for spies...

Oh my gosh, yes I do! And in Las Vegas it is the best place EVER to watch people! All kinds there! We used to live there few years back and that is what we'd do! SIt in front of a casino and just watch and have a blast! People are crazy silly any more! But the sites you'd see...so many times it 'd be "oh my gosh, she wore that out of the house?" or "he forgot to take his pajamas off" etc. Today, it isn't as much fun as people don't seem to care how they dress...junky, crappy, sloppy, whatever and it "people watching" isn't a novelty anymore! They look like that all the time! But yeah, shopping centers are a good place to. Indoor malls out here in CA are good. I just don't get why people don't have any pride in their apprearance anymore. They go out in slippers, and of course the styles these days are no help at all! But...it is a nice silly afternoon activity that reduces stress and makes you feel good just to do nothing!

I do like to people watch. Where ever I go. Used to do it alot while setting waiting for my daughter at the mall. People are funny sometimes, even alittle odd. How self involved they are. This human personality is such that I am always curious about what makes people tick.

I do love to people watch. I like goin to the mall or amusement parks to see bi groups of people walking around and interacting together. I haven't seen any thing funny. At the movies a few might some beets rude young teens and some very rude 20 something years olds.

I love people watching so much that I have made a career out of it as a Surveillance operator ;) You see some very interesting things. Due to a confidentiality clause I cant tell you any specific examples but yeah! I love to people watch! lol