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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What's your craziest/strangest staring incidence?
I think the craziest one just happened for me yesterday. Two older men went by on a motorcycle, the passenger just staring at me the whole time. I was just walking back to my apartment with a friend. They had already driven pretty far, and the guy pointed and they turned around, then came back up my side of the road so the driver could look at me. Then once they had gone past, they turned around again, and the passenger guy was still staring at me the whole way, until they were too far for him to see me anymore. I've already read a few that top mine, but considering that I haven't really had anyone stare at me so insistently in a long time, it stood out.
Some migrant farmers in the Shanghai subway. I really tried my best to win the staring contest....but those guys are professionals.
I took my boys to see a play for kids (possibly the worst rendition of Wizard of Oz I have ever seen). The theater was in the middle of a university campus so there were lots of students wandering around.
I was taking my boys to the restroom when I spotted 2 pretty girls walking towards us and their eyes were locked on my boys. The girls were so focused on staring at my boys that one of them walked straight into a wall and bounced back so hard she fell back on her ass.
The girl was so embarrassed that she ran into a nearby classroom leaving her laughing friend behind.
Jnusb416:
They were probably amazed at how adorable your children are.
I was playing a game and I won a prize and oh boy did I get some lookers...I call those people witnesses because I perform when I play...Oh yeah not to mention in the classroom because they have to sit there and stare at me for hours upon hours in a day...lol! It sucks to be you!!
mattaya:
It's the win record that's why they stare I get over 20 wins and win big prizes...if I play soccer I will win the trophy and they will all stare no matter what...they are witness to greatness.....ah yes and students staring is actually quite funny cause there looks are always the same they are always confused....
TedDBayer:
tip toeing and prancing while around eating your Fruit Loops will do that.
Jnusb: Maybe he wanted your number?
Jnusb416:
No, he was too old for that, they just wanted to stare at me.
If I'm grocery shopping, I've noticed some people take alot of interest with what I've got in my cart. I've had people stand next to it and take a long glance as if they're doing inventory.
bike-gypsy:
yep, and a few times Ive had them take stuff out of my basket to see what it is.
Sorry, Chinese people stare, even to themself, of course your situation would be much worse. YOu gotta get used to it.
walking home in Mudanjiang just on dark with my wife when
A young lady riding past on her bike stared just a little to long
just before she rode smack into a parked truck.
I did ask her if she was alright and she just hid her face and was on her way.
Was like a western movie when the people and the music stop playing when the outlaw walks into a bar. Anyway small town walked in to this small place to grab a quick bite to eat all the people stopped talking turned the heads and looked at me from ordering to eating, to finishing.
philbravery:
I know how that goes
the first time my wife then GF took me home to meet her family it was like that movie guess who is coming for dinner
only Sydney Portia is more refined
Sorry, I answered this on another thread a few days ago.
I was walking along a street in a small city in Yunnan. A woman riding a bike saw me and turned to stare. She rode her bicycle into some dustbins at the side of the road and fell into one of them. She immediately climbed out covered from head to toe in rotting vegetable matter and, without so much as stopping to brush herself down, walked a few paces towards me so she could get a better view.
Even my Chinese colleagues were in hysterics when I told them about it!
Last summer I took a bus from Yangshuo, an old man sat across the isle and stared at me the whole way, I was so tired, but couldn't nod off, figured I'd wake up naked and everything I had gone.
I've been waiting for another of these, I plan on staring back, but moving my hand up and down in front of my face and changing my expression as I pass my had over my face, going from a mean stare to a smiling face , each time my hand crosses my face.
Rin:
I'm suprised. I thought he'd be used to foreigners. Yangshuo has more foreigners than Chinese people!
I was in an elevator with another teacher. She was a local so she didn't stand out. A group of girls stepped in and one of them glanced at me. On the way up, she glanced a couple more times so I said "Hi". She literally went "EEEEEE" and pushed past her friends to get out first as the door opened. They were asking what's wrong and all I could make out was she said something about a waiguoren. After that scene, my co-worker turned to me and asked what happened. All I could say was hell if I know.
LAR:
OMG yes Mark. Some Chinese women and South Korean for that matter..are some of the BIGGEST IDIOTS!!!!!! :(
Not really staring, but along the same lines.. I think I might've written about this b4 on here... oh well..
I was standing at a bus-stop in a factory area (Guangdong), I had been there like a minute,,, the girl standing next to me, looked around, saw me, Shrieked and ran off ! hard to explain, believe, but seriously that is what happened.
In the West, I am a way normal looking guy, so, it was just that she was such a hillbilly, she freaked seeing a white dude. mindless creature I am sad to say....
I was walking down the street,a strange guy came to me and shouted to me that he loved me.The craziest thing I have ever met.
I was walking down the street,a strange guy came to me and shouted to me that he loved me.The craziest thing I have ever met.
i get this all the time in the normal way you all get everyday. It can be annoying, but sometimes when its the little babies, its not weird.
All the time Im standing in line somewhere and some kid (pre talking age) is staring at me. The mother or father usually is encouraging "say ni hao/hello"
These little kids dont listen to their parents, They are genuinely intrigued.
But they are thinking as they look between me and their dad "Ok, this guy is different, i cant put my figure on it. That guy I know has to round things in his round/semi swivel thing, and a triangle in the front, and that thing under the triangle that I make when I bust ass.... its all so familiar, but something just aint right.... when i can talk i will ask about it, but i will stare until i figure it.... ohh what is that, a sparkly package? Why cant I reach that shit, everyone else can. Shit, I wish I was Mr Gadget or could at least reach that shiny shelf"
It's not quite a staring incident as such, but I did used to enjoy sitting at the back of the bus on my way home from work and making the maddest faces out the back window as we past bus-stops. Kind of like a manic screaming face. Couldn't even see clearly I screwed my face up so tight. Pity I didn't have my camera phone at the time or I could have picked up the reactions; as it is for all I know not a single person saw me.
i visited the home town of a good friend a few months ago. we walked together down the main street in the town chatting and the following happened: people in shops came out stood and stared, people stopped and stared, cars stopped and the drivers got out and stared. and no, i am a normal looking foreigner - no deformities or anything - ha ha. Also there was the time I met a couple of other foreigners for lunch. Then men at the next table, although finished their meal, watched us talking and eating. as soon as we got up to pay, they left.
I remember staring at the back of this guys's head because it looked like a face. Whenever he fell asleep the back of his head changed and it was the weirdest thing. I kept staring because I had never seen that before.
TedDBayer:
So you admit to being Chinese, staring and sleeping with bald men !