If you're out in public and people watching, what most catches your eye about others?

Whether or not they could rob me.

I scan persons' face and try to imagine what sort of personality gives the shape to their face or how the face can indicate what sort of personality the person is.

In summer sexy bare legs catch my attention quite a lit though; kind of distracting.

:)

Well, they are amazing things.

All sizes, shapes, modes of dress and presentation, ways of jiggling -

very distracting!

May the pleasures and joys always be with you. :)

Drones on phones in a trance, never ceases to amaze me how dumbed down overall society has become.

Do you have a strategy?

Mine is how I carry my bag, and where I go and at which time of day and week.

Mostly there is very little risk around my valley.

Delinquent kids are a possibility - they're out for mischief on Fri and Sat nights.

Yeah, I love to scan faces that way too. Amazing how much one can pick up that way.

Even without a libido, I still find the beauty of young ones and occasionally some older ones, a joy to behold.

Seeing who and how many are really aware of their surroundings and the people around them and who/how many are focused in their own little world just barreling through the larger one we occupy.    

T&A / surfboard, blonde hair.

I will admit that I'm not a thin woman by any standard, but it amazes me how obese men and women have gotten.  I work in NYC and come and go home through Grand Central Station.  As I come down the escalators, I'm appalled at how many BIG people there are are waddling around.

Makes me fear for humanity if this continues.

Much the same happens in many areas of Australia.

It's been called a "national obesity epidemic" by doctors. There are campaigns of all kinds to try to educate people on the lifestyle choices that prevent it. And the big worry for the government is the cost of the medical bills to the taxpayer.

My thought when I see such people is how uncomfortable and tiring it must be, how complicated it must make the simplest things, like doing up shoe laces, or keeping creases dry. It reminds me of old people I looked after in residential care. I also think how awful it must be to feel the prejudice and judgments of others. I have to remind myself that it's not always due to lifestyle, that it could as easily be due to some other medical condition.

That is amazing I agree.

I find it hard to get used to people seemingly talking to the air as if they are schizophrenics in the midst of an episode.

Or when one's own friends spend most of a get-together each separately on their phones to someone else.

It makes the world seem quite surreal.

Yes.

The ones who are aware are responding appropriately moment by moment.

And they're more likely to meet one's eyes with an open expression.

They seem to acknowledge being.

@ Hartfire - I think there was a time when they reported that very few people are obese because of medical reasons. More often than not, it has to do with lifestyle. I know it's hard to keep weight off as you get older and even more difficult to take it off, but the reality is that you may have so many more health complications from obesity than you can imagine.

I dare say you are right.

My point was more about not judging a stranger in the street - because we can't know the causes of their obesity irrespective of statistics and probabilities. Fat comedians make it clear how fat people are treated. At the very least, I think lean people should refrain from cruel jokes and abusive comments because it doesn't help fat people lose weight and it only makes them feel more miserable. People think one barb is harmless, without realising they are contributing to a hail of barbs that it is a constant experience in public places.

I'm familiar with the many and serious health complications caused by fat because I worked for a while in aged care - with all the direct and indirect results. I've also seen it in a close friend.

I'm by no means suggesting that fat people should be treated with any less respect than anyone else.  I'm merely telling you that's what I observe when I'm people-watching. 

Accepted. Sorry if I misunderstood.

:)

@Hartfire - No harm done. :)

Their vibe

Behavior/attitude/the way they carry themselves, and the little things that are evident within their personality they themselves may not even be aware of. Kind of an over all sense about them

Yes, I think that's what I respond most to too.

:)