Staring - how rude

I don't know why, but Sporina sounds female to me. But the post has a male vibe.

I wouldn't like to be starring in anything. I think I'm more of a stay-in-the-background kinda person, until the situation needs to be quietly fixed by a limelight-evading benefactor.

Id have seen it as flattery

I came in here thinking "starring" was some new form of woke BS human interaction I ought to learn up on.

Thanks a lot OP. You have failed me as a poster.

You did ask how we would feel about it !!

I hope the lad got the massage as well OP.

Sounds like he deserved it after you starring at him.

Well I would be flattered...Ive done double takes myself with hot guys and then thrown in a wink...!

'It's rude to stare' is what parents say to kids to stop them gawking at the extremes they occasionally come across, extremely tall, extremely short, extremely fat or thin, a really noticeable disability or disfigurement or some other really distinctive quality

In most circumstances, looking at someone is not staring at them.

There comes a point where its creepy and weird but this is a fuzzy line until a point where its obviously weird

Me personally I have bad eyesight. I wear very thick glasses, so it takes me longer to recognise people, to the point where I sometimes walk past someone I know really well because I'm conscious that stopping to properly look at them would come across as staring

I think if you're a 'normal' looking person, and someone keeps looking at you, they either find you attractive, and are trying to suss you out or they're trying to figure out if you're someone they think they know but aren't sure

From the description in the OP he may have ended up thinking you were trying to chat him up stopping him and asking did you know each other.