Trying not to look...

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Roch uses this expression to describe a situation where you're not trying to look at something but you can't really turn away: "it's like looking at the sun...I know I shouldn't look at it, but I can't look away!" It's a good line.

Applies well to bad music videos, infomercials, Jerry Springer, and William Hung...

Had one of those moments the other day. I was crammed into my building's elevator with four other people. Elevator groaned to a stop at another floor and a woman got on face-forward towards me. She was dragging a filled laundry cart with her so it was so cramped in the elevator that she couldn't really turn around now. So now her face is facing/staring straight at me...I look down towards my feet to avoid any continuous-stranger-eye-contact. But now I can see her laundry cart.

I think there's an unwritten rule that you shouldn't stare at a stranger's dirty laundry. It's just not polite to look at other people's knickers! So if I look slightly above...now I'm staring at her chest. Ok. Not that. So I look above and I'm staring back at her face again. Argh. Can't turn and look to the side because people are standing next to me.

So what to do? I suddenly look down and pick up a new fascination in studying my own fingernails. You can imagine how stupid I looked. Ohhhhh...look at that dirt there. Yes. So fascinating. My fingernails. It's almost like I've never seen them before. Woooo.

Sigh. Elevators.

Posted by Dave at February 26, 2004 12:24 AM