A Quiet Afternoon

                It was mid-afternoon and there were barely any people there. There was about only seven groups/pairs each dispersed far away from one another. I went to go sit at my usual table facing the other people. 

                In front of me there were two guys; one with glasses and a blue shirt, and the other in a grey bro tank. They were casually having a conversation. As the conversation died down, they both checked their phones and while glasses was on his phone he started to twirl the headphones on his fingers, and once it stopped, he twirled it the other direction. Glasses starts the conversation again and then grey tank starts laughing. The conversation dies down again this time and when it happened, glasses put on his headphones in one ear and started to twirl the other one again. They both grab their phone again, probably checking social media. Glasses stopped twirling his headphones and starts a conversation again and during this process his posture changes, he touches his chin. Grey is still on his phone, but looks up to start talking again. Grey started to play with his fingers as he started talking again and glasses was playing with his lanyard. Throughout this conversation, they continued to check their phone.

                Another group who was to the right of me had three girls hanging out; one with a brown sweater, one with a white sweater, and a girl in a dress. Brown opens up her bag and pulls out her make-up bag to reapply her lipstick. White is on her computer doing her work. Dress was on her phone the whole time which seemed to be for about 10 minutes. When brown finished applying her lipstick she put her bag away and went back to going through her notes. Dress gets a phone call and answers, she messes with her water bottle as she’s on the phone. White goes back and forth from the textbook on her lap to her computer. As dress was on the phone, she couldn’t keep her hands still as she was touching her face or water bottle while on the phone. Brown showed something to White, which didn’t really catch White’s opinion as she glanced at it and went back to doing her work. Brown seemed to be bored as towards the end of my observation she dazed off. I believe that there was a communication barrier because they talked very little and when dress left so did I. 

               Observing at different times i realized attracts different people and the later it is, there is always less people.