Everyone needs a hobby or two.
I find people watching to be a hilarious activity. I would go as far as to say it is one of my favorite hobbies or pastimes.
However, have you ever tried to implement the reverse people watch mentality? What I mean by that is you set yourself up to be the one gawked at. All the while looking at all the stupidity that surrounds you. I like to sit in an awkward position, wearing clothes that have no business being paired together, finishing the look with a clever or hip hat, along with obnoxious sunglasses. It doesn’t matter if it is day or night, nor does it matter if you look good in hats, the sunglasses and hat really are attention grabbers.
If you’re not quite up to the reverse people watching mentality then a pair of sunglasses in the day time with normal clothes while blending into a bench or a wall will suit you well.
A variation to the above and to the following strategies is to imply the winter hat indoors and the newspaper. People will think you’re reading and you’re smart, but really you’re just looking around trying to find someone to laugh at.
If you’re not sitting, make sure while you’re walking around a mall or some other place that you walk as close as you can to the people that you are people watching. Really get to know them. Make sure you can hear their conversations. Don’t be afraid to mutter something that could be mistaken for an answer in their conversation. It will make them very uncomfortable. Which is hilarity.
Another important aspect of people watching is to hit up the food court. If you’re in a mall I mean. If not, next time you’re eating you can try it at the restaurant. While people eat there is a lot of looking around going on. It doesn’t matter if the person is with 17 people or if there are two. They will chomp on their food and look around. During this chomping and staring around with no sense of purpose to their life, perhaps laughing and spewing particles of food across the table you could be picking out certain individuals to focus your gaze. The key to this is when your victim notices that you’ve been staring at her for three to five minutes, you DO NOT LOOK AWAY! You just keep looking, and hold your facial expression, if you’re smiling remain smiling, if you are vacant of expression, hold it! This will really make people uncomfortable while you on the inside are laughing until your stitches burst. To make this even more enjoyable carry a pad of paper and count how many times you do this to people.
This would probably be more fun with a group of people, but if you’re by yourself it makes it very creepy, and that in itself is hilarious.
Doing any of these things while you’re pretending you have a disability of some sort just makes it all the more interesting.
So, for an interesting day that doesn’t cost a lot of money, try people watching in some of the ways I have described for you.
BTW I am watching you.