to have a good nosey at laptops open next to me on a train ...say

[GracieGrace]

blokey sitting next to you, would your eye wander surreptitiously?( at his pc i mean!)

I always want to know, and listen in to worky calls too.

hopeless

I would say that its impossible not to look unless you are wearing horse-style blinkers.

Equally if I was using a laptop on a train I would "expect" the person next to me to look so wouldn't look at anything confidential for eaxample.

when your book is upside down.

Oh they want you to look so you can see how terribly IMPORTANT they are. Feel free.

DO you think?
I love hearing all the worky stuff.

One thing that age has taught me is that most people have a terribly inflated opinion about how interesting their work is, and how important. It's mostly all bollox, and most people are winging it.

oh i agree. Its only a job, I htink maternity leave makes you realise that.

Some times though oyu do do somehting at work that makes you feel "old" or too young/too much of a prat to be doing it

I always listen in to conversations betwen people who are sitting behind me on the bus or train and hope they get off first so I can see if my mental image of them is correct. If they don't I have to surripticiously look through their window on my exit.