When is the last time you people watched?

Yesterday at the state fair. It’s gotten so expensive that people watching is about all I can afford to do there anymore.

I hope the people I saw weren’t a good cross-section of American citizens. I’ve never seen so many obese people in one place.

Sadly, people watching is one of my chief forms of entertainment. lol Sometimes I’ll sit in my car in the store parking lot for a few minutes just to watch the people coming and going.

We are fortunate to have a Subway shop just inside the door of our WalMart and sometimes I’ll get a Sammie and sit there and find great amusement with the show that humanity provides. Thankfully I live near a shallow point in the gene pool and sometimes the show is pretty good!

I like to do this. I regularly go out for coffee and choose a seat where I can watch people from. However, I’m not naturally the most observant person.

Glad to see others do this as well.

I always look at people, what they wear, their hair, how they act.

The last time I did it on a major scale was when I went to a county fair last weekend. Very interesting as these were country people, from an agricultural area, so they were interesting (as they always are when I go to this fair every year).

I will go to NYC for work this week, two days. That will provide me with lots of people watching.

I used to always do this in the summer. Whenever I’d be working the office and not busy, I’d go sit outside the main door and watch/talk to people. I even did it when I wasn’t working.

I love to people watch. Everybody brings something different to the table.

About three nights a week on the boardwalk.

I think it is almost impossible not to watch people when one is out. I find myself doing it almost unconsciously; I am waiting for a light, at the coffee house, library, shopping, and find myself checking people out, and how they are interacting with their kids or spouse, etc. I too hope against hope as @bossob I hope the people I saw weren’t a good cross-section of American citizens. I’ve never seen so many obese people in one place., wondering if those people realize what they look like to others before they left their homes.

I am 100lbs over weight and would be considered obese and I do wonder what people think of me, but remember I do work 14 hour days and my work is very tirering but not physical ,and wonder if people would say I am lazy because of my weight, and yet most people at their ideal weight couldn’t or just wouldn’t put in the work hours I do.

People watching here in Tennessee is depressing. The most entertaining yet saddening: Walmart @2:00AM on a Sunday night.

Yes I was there at that time getting teflon tape for a plumbing emergency

@SQUEEKY2 that seems to me to be a very different proposition. Now you’re talking about judging people rather than watching them. I think watching people, their reactions, activities, behaviours is a fascinating and positive thing to do. Judging someone because they’re overweight – not positive at all.

I love to people watch, and there’s a certain amount of judgement in that, @SQUEEKY2. However, I never wonder what I might think of myself, were I watching me entering a store.

I don’t really care. It’s the people that DO care that are the most hilarious. We’ve taken to calling them the “Look At Me” people. It’s amazing how desperate people can be for attention.

@Earthbound_Misfit very true just responding to the obese remark.
And people are VERY judgemental by the way can’t deny that no matter how hard we try.
Oh and when I watch, I try not to judge , but find myself falling in that hole from time to time.

The last time was when my husband and I took our daughter to see One Direction at Soldier Field in Chicago a few weeks ago. I hate to admit that the boys put on a great show, but I did spend a lot of time people watching. There were 55,000 people in attendance. I’m pretty sure that’s more people than the population of the county I live in here in Illinois.

I had fun watching the parents with their young daughters. Some were drinking and others were dancing along to the music. Two fathers took pictures of each other holding up signs that read “I ♥ ID.” I have a feeling those pictures became profile pics for their fb accounts.

Timing is everything when it comes to people watching at WalMart. The costumes get more entertaining as evening approaches, and get extreme at night.

Actually, it’s constant.

At the Queen Lil’uokalani Outrigger Canoe Races in Kona Hawaii last month. Those very buff young women are a sight to behold. See some of my Flickr pictures here of the Kai Opua team

I live in Manhattan.

I am doing it constantly.

All kinds of critters to watch there!