Day 2 of wearing sunglasses indoors
As I tweeted about yesterday, I broke my glasses. I don't have a back-up other than my prescription sunglasses. This means for the next few days, I'm wearing sunglasses inside. This has elicited a number of responses: My wife breaking in to a giggle fit every time she looks at me. Apparently wearing sunglasses in bed is funny. A number of comments related to having a bright future, playing a piano, trying to be cool, etc. The most interesting is watching how people respond in conversations when they can't see my eyes. They look away nervously, not knowing what to look at. They also can't tell if I can see them so they look around the room instead. It has just made me accutely aware of how much eye contact plays in human interaction.
Of course, I probably already get weird looks and the sunglasses just trick people in to thinking that I can't see them! Maybe I will just wear them all the time, like the guy who wore his conference name tag all the time and got a book deal. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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