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why do i feel like someone’s watching me?

October 25, 2012 By Linda 28 Comments

why do i feel like someone’s watching me?

Did you ever feel like someone was watching you?

 

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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 …

 

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… 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.

 

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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 …

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… and attached to the front fence with some command strips.

 

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Now I’ll just wait and see how well they hold up to the elements … and the neighborhood dogs …

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