If you watch people, you can generally tell everything about their current frame of mind and personality, based on their facial expression..when walking or sitting alone. Alone is an important disinction to be made, because typically that is when a person is wrestling with their inner thoughts. (for the unedcuated masses, that means.."what you are REALLY thinking and how you REALLY feel")
Driving does not count, because people feel a sense of surrounding and security when driving. Well, except the incompetent drivers who are terrified to be behind the wheel and reak havoc on our roads. Most people, when driving don't usually open the window to their psyche to others. Again, except if they are freaking out in road rage and exposing that they really are an asshole.
OK, so let's run through the faces...I know you have all seen them, but next time..look a little closer.
Face 1-The "tough guy or girl"
Ok, you know this one. They walk in public with a big scowl on their face, just daring some poor bugger to "mess with them", so they can "mess them up". Yes, how appropriate....go out in public hoping to fight with a perfect stranger because they "messed with you". Good show....perhaps you can go and intimidate your grandmother into an extra helping of ham at Easter. They always have this saying too..."ain't nobody gonna f**k with me.." Well, you know what asshole? I am pretty sure nobody wants to "go you" in the line up at Dairy Queen. (Their face also contorts like a circus clown if the voice in the speaker at the Wendy's drive thru "disses" them)
Face 2-The smiling idiot
OK, smiling is good. Smiling is nice, smiling is what the "normals" do. But there is clearly a line here to be drawn. There is a huge difference bewteen a "content with life smile" and a blithering idiot smiling hysterically, hoping people will notice them smiling. It's like they need to be validated by others that they are "happy and smiling". Which, if that is the case, means they are obviously not happy and should not be smiling. This type of person is smiling hysterically, because someone ELSE told them to, so like a sheep they follow. You know, like those bloddy morons that come knocking on your door on saturday morning trying to "save" or "convert" you. These freaking weirdos creep me out, their smiles are like painted on faces, or the smile of the Joker in Batman. Ya, real natural.
Face 3-The scared of life person
These ones are worth some serious thought. You see them, they get nervous at a cross walk, or traffic light. They are so lacking in confidence that they can't even make eye contact with the little white man that says walk. You've seen them in the grocery store line ups. The "scared of life person" stares at the floor, 40 feet back from any line up...hoping that they somehow make it into a line up, without actually having to be near another person. When they go the bank they can't even tell the teller what they want to do, the teller just has to guess. Waiters and waitresses love these ones too...when they are trying to take the persons order, the "Scared of life person" just don't know, or aren't sure. They are afraid to order anything with meat just in case the waiter is a vegetarian. How they get by life is beyond me, but luckily, it is usually through the kindness of others.
Face 4-The freakin psycho
Ok, tell me you haven't seen this dude. (and let's face it, it's always a guy)This is the guy with "the look". You know "the look", he looks like at any given moment, he is gonna pull out a shotgun and dust everyone in the mall. These are scary people and what makes them scary is that they aren't trying to look scary, you just know from their face...that they are. Everybody instinctively stays away from this guy..perhaps because he is wearing army fatigues and a shirt with a happy face that has a bullet hole in its forehead. Oddly enough, these freaks attract other freaks...must be a stange inner magnet...or the look on their face.
Face 5-The "stoner"
These ones are funny. They just look like they are right out to lunch, oblivious to the whole world. The eyes are like two little lines of thread, or they are WIDE open, staring into space. Nothing changes their blank facial expression. Nothing. A plane could crash beside them and they likely wouldn't notice. Chances are good that they are wearing an iPod. They may not be stoned, but they just don't quite look like they are sharing the same planet as the rest of us. You say hi to them and the response is inevitably "huh". OK, here's a clue stoner, I said "hi". I'll let you in on a secret. It's how about 99% of the english speaking human race greet eachother.
Face 6-The determined "important" walker.
These guys actually make me laugh. You almost always seem that at lunch, walking briskly..looking very serious. They are in a big hurry, they want the world to know that they are important. The determined "important" walker is closing big deals and he needs to get back to his office and keep the economy rolling you know. Get outta my way, this is big business! In reality, this jerk is a file clerk and doesn't have an office, a cubicle, or even a work space. Nothing wrong with being a file clerk, but posing as 'big time", when you aren't...well that's just messed up. Coincidentally, this guy is usually talking on his cell phone loudly and making all kinds of disgusted facial expressions. He is trying to convey that no-one can do it as good as him...."you need me there". In reality, he is talking to his mother and she is reminding him to clean his room..ooops, I meant his "basement apartment" in his mommy's house.
Face 7-The ponderer
I like this one. You can tell they are really, really deep in thought. They have a look about their face like Spock in Star trek, with one eyebrow raised. They are still on this planet, but darn it...something is on their mind. The ponderer is usually pursing their lips slightly, which is a giveway that they are pondering, of course. But, the rest of their face is serene and calm.
Watch the face, it's the gateway to the soul.
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