Plates of Glass

It annoys me when some couple are dining or enjoying a coffee inside a cafe and they think that just because they are behind a plate of glass this gives them the opportunity to voyeur into the world outside the plate of glass. You see this all the time, couple on the inside who think they now have the cafe given right to stare you down. Its this total illusion that they are seperate from the "outside world" sorta thing whilst in a cafe. Also I have noticed that ppl take good looks at other ppl and voyeur whilst sipping coffee, the sip coffee i can now stare around the room and voyeur move. The ridiculousness of this is most apparent in the Adelaide MYER centre. There is this coffee/cafe place in the corner near the london tavern which is seperated by a plate of glass to give it the appearance that everything on the other side of the glass is "outside", gives it a real, authentic cafe vibe (pffft yeah right). I was walking past this place yesterday and as I walked past, glanced inside and met the gaze of a grey haired man of about 40, but it was not just a glance, this guy was gazing into my soul, it was if he thought he was sitting in the most expensive restaurant in town only he was only sitting in the myer centre food court. I wonder how long he will maintain eye contact I think, so i keep walking and don't look away. Im not backing down. HE DOES NOT LOOK AWAY! no... HE is the one behind the plate of glass, thus rendering himself untouchable. I wanted to punch the plate of glass where he was sitting to wake him up out of his fairy tale dissolutionment.
Bored/boring couples are often the greatest culprits when it comes to this. They have nothing to say to each other and are doing the restaurant thing because, well, its just what you do when your old, you dine at restaurants. Its not right/fair. If you are outside a cafe/restaurant you don't stand by the window gazing in, no, this would make the ppl on the other side of the window uncomfortable, well its the same thing of ppl on the inside, don't stare out! Look at each other, look at your food, a plate of glass does not give you the right to stare.

None of the above applies if you are drunk and are sitting inside Rundle St Hungry Jacks on a Fri/Sat night. Stare as much as you like, its your drunken Hungry Jacks given right.

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 8:00 PM