man, staring at someone and looking at the direction someone’s in is very clearly and very noticeably different.
How would you quantify that legally?
what’s this supposed to mean?
not sure if this will add to the discussion, but i take the bus every day and, every single day, my mind goes away at some point. my mind just trips away and i’m left looking at a direction, not paying attention to anytng or anyone i’m looking at. it’s like i’m looking at something or someone, but not seeing them. sometimes it happens that some people are in the very same direction i was looking at when my mind tripped away. what i do is i then look at them in the face and smile and look away, to sort of tell them that i wasn’t really staring at them, i was just thinking about someting completely different and unfortunately theirs ended up being the direction that i was looking at the moment before tripping away.
and i always feel uncomfortably bad afterwards, even though the person always realizes i wasn’t really looking at them so the situation itself isn’t uncomfortable. it’s pretty hard to avoid it though, since it usually happens when i’m tired, and i’m always tired.
but i can’t imagine what it must be like to have a stranger staring at you for 5 direct seconds on purpose. creepy as hell.