Did you ever feel like someone was watching you?
And I don’t mean in some stalker-ish hiding behind a bush or watching through binoculars kind of way …
I mean right in plain sight.
Sitting across a conference room table from you in plain sight …
In the company of other people in plain sight …
And, admittedly, looking straight at you because you’re talking … in plain sight … in a meeting . A meeting you arranged.
But they aren’t just looking at you …
… they’re looking through you.
True story.
Fifteen years ago. New York City. Doing some meet-and-greets with media we worked with regularly. Now granted I was 15 years younger … 15 years – and pounds — thinner … and 15 years of gravity had not yet taken its toll …
But one of the meet and greets was staring at me so intently … intensely … it caught me off guard. Made me extremely uncomfortable.
I questioned if perhaps I was mistaken. Maybe he stared at everyone like that. Maybe he made everyone feel uncomfortable …
And I questioned myself right up until we stepped outside the front door of that building. That’s when my co-worker rounded on me and was like “what was that?” and “why was he staring at you like that?” …
So it wasn’t my imagination.
And I never did find out what was going on … I left that particular job not too long after those NYC meet and greets …
Thankfully, my Halloween googley eyes don’t look through me … or make me feel uncomfortable.
After all, they’re just made out of four different sizes of Styrofoam balls I picked up at Michael’s. And colored with a sharpie. And attached together using some toothpicks …
… and attached to the front fence with some command strips.
Now I’ll just wait and see how well they hold up to the elements … and the neighborhood dogs …
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