The Shameless Stare......

Yesterday I was waiting for a Bus at the Ekkattuthungal Bus Stop and was staring down the road wondering when the bus will turn up and if it will bother to stop when it does, just then a cute looking girl standing amongst the crowd caught the focus of my eye and I started shooting regular 5 sec glimpses at her…and while I was exercising my pervert demeanor in public, I had missed two white board M70s(Bus I was supposed to catch and usually very infrequent)…but it wasn’t much alerting coz I was in no hurry to go to work, and this is a routine and not a one-off thing which happened yesterday, just that you don’t spot cute girls at the Ekkattuthungal Bust stand everyday.

Though I have been disciplined all my life not to stand and gawk at girls, but this has often resulted in obsessively contemplating staring while the target is in sight and ignoring almost everything else, loads of people do it everyday ….at Malls and Supermarkets, at workplaces while idling in your office chair, standing at annoying long queues in the cafeteria…..you let us laze for a moment and we will be at it, its in our genes, we have to do it, its one of those things which sometimes keeps me alert and awake in my office(not the coffee).


Now staring in public and then getting caught may not sound too negative for loafers like me, but for others it could ruin whatever little reputation one might have had in workplaces and neighborhoods, coz not many people actually realize this, but females apparently have wider peripheral vision because they have more of the receptor rods and cones in the retina, which in non-geek means they are biologically equipped to catch us when we are busy relaxing our eyes with delight,... some hot girls actually get offended when men don’t stare at them, it’s a fact…they like all the stares and the attention they get for free, and no matter how we try to camouflage our exploits they invariably know it and enjoy it, though we have no threat here coz these are safe targets, its the other breed of females that has been a problem…and over the years men have tried all sorts of techniques and ways for solution…like hunting in numbers and using our buddies as our best defense, thereby taking short glimpses in between our conversations, even using complex reflection techniques when just a simple stare may not be enough and a Complete Check Out(CCO) is the need of the hour.

But this is Risky business and should not be tried by the slow and Blockheaded people as they could call trouble on their completely innocent buddies who might have had a clean track record in these things.
Now when you are caught in your act and your target is not one of those who beams with joy when gawked at by strange people, here’s what you can get away with:

1. She might stare back at you with anger and possibly muttering under her breath ‘how a sick lecherous old pervert you are’, or she might just get away from your sight if she is uncomfortable with direct contact but she will still be muttering those same words.
2. ‘Paraya Ladkiyon ko Ghoorte hue Sharm nahi aati’ or ‘Ghar mein maa behen nahi hai kya’ if you have failed miserably with a CO. (Do not charge for using vulgar language or you will be redirected to 3) .
3. Public Beating if you have tried a CCO which went horribly wrong or if you tried to play smart and accused the girl of staring at you instead.
, Though far worse things have happened to people if you have followed IndiaTV or AajTak regularly.

All Men could be divided into people who gawk and ‘those who gawk but don’t get caught’. There’s nothing wrong in getting caught, Heads of State from several countries have been caught in the act by media over the years. Latest examples where made in the G8 summit in July this year. The Camerawallas were quick to capture them in moments that would make their wives proud. Some have been lucky but some weren’t…….

Heheh...Everybody stares ...look at all of them, busy in COs...