I simply love people watching. I have a strong early memory of waiting in a parked car while my parents attended to some long-since forgotten errand. An extremely easily bored child with a scant attention span (nothing has changed into adulthood, alas, alas...) I was spoilt rotten by the constant attention of my 2 older siblings. On this occasion, my sister Bryony was amusing me by speaking outloud the thoughts of passers-by. I delighted in it, and it stuck with me - still to this day, I could people-watch for hours, conjecturing their names, occupations, nationalities, shopping lists, reasons for being in that exact place at that exact time and so on.
I go to extraordinary lengths to eavesdrop on an interesting conversation (I like to think I have perfected the "Don't-mind-me-I'm-just-minding-my-own-business" look) and indeed, my boyfriend has been amazed time and again at my ability to listen to and participate in a conversation between himself and I, while at the same time keeping one ear firmly on the goings-on around us. I will happily and without embarrassment deviate out of my way to pick up pieces of interesting looking debris or read signs on doors or tucked under windscreen wipers. It is therefore with a cry of joy, and a rallying call to all other nosy parkers, that I intend to become a regular at this website:
FOUND magazine - www.foundmagazine.com/find
Inquisitive minds from around the world send in things they have found (notes, pictures, whatever) for us to feast our prying eyes on. I love it!
On the topic of websites, I must offer up this gem of a quote from my Mum a while back, with a disclaimer that my Mum is actually very up on all things cyber-space and is not often caught out:
Jan: "You really seem to like this Facebook website. Do you think I should get an account?"(Affirming murmers from my direction) Jan: "You'll have to write the website down for me, I won't remember it. What is it again? Something like http://www.get-on-my-face.com/?"
No, Jan - that website may well take you to something quite different.
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