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Eye contact

  • 28-08-2013 8:54pm
    #1
    scarymoon1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭


    Is anyone like me and if you catch someone's eye in passing you look away really quick? Yet the person continues to be looking if I look back at them. Maybe I'm paranoid but why do I think it's polite to look away really quick yet the other person doesn't.


Comments

  • #2
    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    How is this an issue?


  • #3
    scarymoon1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭scarymoon1


    CaraMay wrote: »
    How is this an issue?

    If I'm paranoid about it then its an issue to me, maybe not to you


  • #4
    JoePdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭JoePdw


    don’t you think it’s inappropriate to look away when someone is looking at you?


  • #5
    scarymoon1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭scarymoon1


    JoePdw wrote: »
    don’t you think it’s inappropriate to look away when someone is looking at you?

    I don't mean when having a conversation. I mean just walking down a street or corridor and a stranger is passing


  • #6
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Happens to me all the time, but I'm incredibly good-looking. It's only really an issue if it turns into a staring contest. Then you're obliged to shout at them "Its on!" and leap at them like you're a monkey, until they either hug you or they run away.


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  • #7
    Dinxminx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Dinxminx


    I guess it can be slightly weird. It happens to me too - I think some people just think it's only polite to look away while other people stand there and think "Ah sure well I've been caught now - in for a penny in for a pound!"


  • #8
    JoePdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭JoePdw


    that’s rude to look away


  • #9
    scarymoon1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭scarymoon1


    Dinxminx wrote: »
    I guess it can be slightly weird. It happens to me too - I think some people just think it's only polite to look away while other people stand there and think "Ah sure well I've been caught now - in for a penny in for a pound!"


    I find it really uncomfortable though making eye contact! Guess I'm just a weirdo!


  • #10
    scarymoon1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭scarymoon1


    JoePdw wrote: »
    that’s rude to look away

    So I should keep looking at them? Even though I don't know them?


  • #11
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    Why not throw them a friendly smile? :confused:


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