Observation #1

This week, I decided to observe people at the St. George mall.  There I sat and tried to pick out nonverbal cues that people were giving off.  For the first 10 minutes I was sitting inside the mall; there was a little boy who clearly needed to use the restroom.  The mother was too busy on her cell phone to notice the boy’s cues.  As I watched, the boy’s cues seemed to be more and more noticeable.  He was doing the “potty dance” and was making weird faces.  I couldn’t help but laugh because I knew the feeling of being scared to wander off to the bathroom or not knowing where it would be located.  By the boys facial expressions, where his hands were, and the constant movement, it was clear the boy needed to use the restroom.

Another situation that occurred after that was a male trying to talk to a female.  This situation is one of my favorites because I only thought this situation occurred in movies.  The male was trying to talk to a random girl and ask her on a date but she was clearly uninterested.  She was giving off all of the right signals suggesting she was not interested but the man must have been obvious or just did not seem to care.  The girl kept looking at her watch as if to make it seem she needed to be somewhere soon. She was trying to get him to realize she was not really listening to what the man had been saying.  Her face had an extremely bored look and she couldn’t keep eye contact, nor could she go a few words without picking up her cell phone.  All of these cues and signals suggest she was not that interested in the man or what the man even had to say.