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People-watching can be a let down.  A woman’s head with unnervingly blond hair styled like a 90’s 11-year-old boy (think Mccully Culkin) talks to someone I can’t see.  There is no mad gesticulating, no expression of wild happiness, just…talking.  It probably doesn’t help that I am watching from my tiny bathroom window (hence seeing only the head of the woman) and my view is incredibly limited.  But still, my samples of human life should do their best to be a little more entertaining. Yesterday I watched someone carry groceries to their room.  Hardly enthralling.I suppose I shouldn’t expect so much from the apartment complex next door, but it’s my most accessible pool of humanity. It’s also disconcerting to do it from a bathroom window. I know I wouldn’t want them to be able to see into my bathroom – but they can’t complain about being watched.  It hasn’t been banned yet, though I suppose eventually Big Brother will have cameras everywhere making sure nobody is people-watching._____________________________________________I think there should be a word for “easily distracted.”  Sticking an ADD label on everyone with a propensity towards distraction (see, that’s why we need a word) isn’t cutting it for me.  I’m thinking something like “ringy”. Ringy people can be annoying to focused people.

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