Why was the bloke at the pool looking at me like this?

[LynetteScavo]

There was a bloke who was sitting not far fromin the seating area who was looking at me too much.
When I mentioned it to DH he said he's done the same thing to him.

When I say to much, I could sence he was looking at me; I'd look at him, and sort of smile, be he didn't look away or smile back.

Weird.

His DS does go to the same school as my DS, but DH says he's never seen him before.

What's going on?

I really wanted to say "You got a problem?" in a hard way, but ofcourse I didn't.

perhaps he has a squint

My son looks at people like that. he has autism.
He is looking but not really seeing a person and has no interest in interacting. But he might like their hair colour, or t-shirt or the light near them or something.

Probably not relevent but i know he freaks people out sometimes. Which I do occasionally find funny if the person is a knob. Not you of course
Perhaps it is because you have something very beautiful about you

No, defiately no squint.

I could undertand if he is autistic - that would explian it. I don't think he is though, but then again how would I know!

at Lynette that she didn't go for the very beautiful explaination...

maybe you had some pubeage going on

Maybe he was lost in thought and not actually looking at you.

You remind him ofsomeone

Ah. This kind of happened to me one time...a man with a small boy on his shoulders used to walk past our garden, slowly, and he would be staring at me. I never understood it, presumed he was harmless but slightly strange - we spoke one day with our respective children, then I got to know his wife very well and yes, he does have an ASD. He's a lovely bloke, just socially a bit different.

I was a bit disappointed actually, thought I had an admirer!!

Definitely an eyesight problem.

I have short sightedness and had to get special goggles from my optician as I kept staring at people in strange ways or completley ignoring them as I could not see them in the pool at our local sports club These were often parents at our DS1 and DS2 school.

This wasn't in the pool(definatly no pubage going on. ) - it was the seating/foyer/drinks machine area.

He was very grumpy looking. At first I thought he was annoyed because DS and I were sitting at a group of four chair, and there was nowhere else for him to sit, so unless he wanted to join us we had to spare seats. I thought he thought we were hogging them. Then DH DD and DS2 came and sat down, and he looked really crossly at DH too.

I sort of wanted to start a fight with him as his wife is a govenor at the school and always parks dangerously outside school, in exactly the place numerous school news letters and police requests have asked parents not to park. But I'll save that one for his wife.

Next time I sem him I'm going to say "Hi"