Do Nothing

After a nice lunch at Lou Malnati's I stood in the corner of the crowded room. While some eyes turned my way, others continued to eat without noticing me. I felt very uncomfortable and awkward and did not know what to do with myself. I felt self conscious that everyone was looking at me while I'm sure people looked up to see what I was doing and then continued on with their meals not caring. At first I was just waiting for it to be over and wanted so badly to check the clock every couple of seconds. The room was too noisy for me to listen in on anyones conversations, so I watched how people talked and interacted with each other. I even discovered some of the peoples weird eating habits, especially with the thick crust pizza. Some would take off all the tomatoes and some would even just eat the cheese without anything else. After scanning the room multiple times I began to get bored watching people eat their pizza in strange ways. I found myself doing other things to keep me busy like examining the floor design, or reading the signs on the walls or even looking out the windows. But I realized that by doing all those things I wasn't "doing nothing". I found it difficult to just stand there and literally do absolutely nothing. I tried not getting caught up in my own thoughts but it was tough. Eventually 10 minutes passed and I walked out. I'm honestly surprised that no one came up to me and asked me what I was doing. As the person standing there, I definitely felt more uncomfortable than the people around me did. Everyone was too caught up doing their own thing that they didn't care what I was doing. No one felt awkward, it was only me.