Christine DeRienzo
Coffee Shop Activity
I decided to choose the coffee shop activity for this assignment. I shared my choice with my husband who questioned why on earth I would choose this for the assignment, but I was intrigued to see what would happen.
I decided to go to Panera and have a muffin and some coffee. I chose a seat where I could easily see all around the restaurant. I took my school bag with me with some papers to grade. Once I sat down, I put my papers on the table and my pen in my hand. I chose to focus on a woman who looked to be about my age. I noticed that she was eating a bread bowl soup and some kind of sandwich. I was not directly behind her, but kind of off to the side. It was a bit weird to just sit there and stare at someone eating their lunch. It made me feel kind of uncomfortable.
The woman I was looking at did not notice that I was watching her for quite a long time. She was eating with someone else, and it was the other person who called her attention to me. Her companion kind of pointed in my direction and I could see her asking the woman if she knew me. The woman turned in my direction and then back to her friend and must have told her she didn’t know me.
Of course, I continued to stare at her, which after I knew she knew I was watching, made me even more uncomfortable. Her friend again said something to her about me watching her and the woman once again looked over at me. This time I put my pen to my temple like I was thinking and kind of looked around. I did not like the feeling at all.
But, I decided to give it one more try. I again began staring at her. This time, when I saw her friend watching me, I started looking at the papers I had on the table from school. I could no longer stand the weird, creepy feeling I had. I felt like I was doing something wrong by staring at this woman.
I felt okay doing this experiment until I knew I was making the lady and her friend uncomfortable. The woman’s friend looked like she was getting rather annoyed with me staring and I did not want to have a problem. This experiment provided me with a lot of strange emotions that I had never really experienced. This is not something I will be trying again any time soon.
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