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AIBU to wish people would stop staring!

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Mamafratelli · 24/05/2013 14:39

I have recently noticed people having a good old stare at me. Not a discrete glance but a full on stare as I walk past, actually turning their heads to watch me once I have already passed them. I tend to catch them staring out of the corner of my eye, then if I turn round a few steps on they are still staring. What are they looking at? I am fully clothed, no distinguishing features. AIBU to want them to stop?

I am almost tempted to shout "what are you looking at have I got a tampon on my head" which I once heard a teenager say to her friend I'm obviously not gong to say that

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apatchylass · 24/05/2013 16:15

Do you look like a sleb?

Did you forget to mutate back into human form after your last trip to your home planet?

Are you shouting at your DC with three fags hanging out of your mouth?

Or, are you actually just ten times more gorgeous than you know?

Could it be that your DC are gorgeous? I'm guilty of unashamedly gawping at gorgeous babies. Just can't help it. It takes so much self control not to start stupid conversations with their mothers and put on stupid voice telling them how beautiful they are.

Buzzardbird · 24/05/2013 16:20

Well, you are staring at them...or you wouldn't see them staring at you would you?

borisjohnsonshair · 24/05/2013 16:22

Yes post a pic and let the MN jury decide Grin Grin [nosy emoticon]

Mamafratelli · 24/05/2013 16:22

I'm not starin at them. I tend to get that feeling of being watched and clock them out of the corner of my eye. Maybe they are just having a good old nosy and don't realise I have clocked them.

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wonderingagain · 24/05/2013 16:23

I bet you're gorgeous and forgotten about it. As we tend to do after having children.

Either that or you live in Royston Vasey.

squoosh · 24/05/2013 16:23

Some people like a good old stare, in some countries it's what they do, isn't considered impolite.

The other day I caught someone doing a slow body scan from my toes to my head. By the time they got to my head they received a big 'Ummmm, yes?' from me.

bootsycollins · 24/05/2013 16:23

Are they staring at your face?

propertyNIGHTmareBEFOREXMAS · 24/05/2013 16:25

Has your fake tan streaked in the rain? Grin

melika · 24/05/2013 16:41

Have you been smoking the ole marijawana? That can make you paranoid.

Or.......get a friend, sit down and have a good chat and after a while....ask him/her 'have you noticed anything different about me?'

If not forget it.

marjproops · 24/05/2013 16:51

we get it all the time but thats because im ugly as hell and DCs disabled. thats reason enough for people to stare.

op you should ask them waht theyre staring at. unless youre like us then youll know.

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