people watching

have you ever caught yourself somewhere and you begin to watch the workings of the people around you? that is what i am doing now. 

i am currently at Wendy's, waiting on someone and as i look around the people here are fascinating. 

there are many couples here that are not even speaking to one another. i never want to be in a relationship, any type of relationship with anyone who i am not able to carry on a conversation with over lunch. this is just sad. 

next, we find parents here with their children. the kids running around like they on the place, not even paying any attention to their parents. i find this to be very wrong. i mean, i know when i was little i didn't always listen to everything my mom said but watching the kids here, makes me feel very sorry for their parents and mine, for having to put with misbehaving children. 

the other category here are the people here by themselves. sitting here staring around or down at there food looking very lonely. a lot of them are older people, who make you wonder what they have in their life. do they work? do they have any family? how did they end up at wendy's on a friday afternoon eating alone? these types of people are the ones that my heart always goes out to. sometimes, i have the urge to just go up to them and sit down and strike up a conversation. but nowadays that would be weird and i would probably get yelled at. 

so it comes down to everyone mechanically, going through the motions of getting their food, eating it and leaving. not interacting with anyone else here but somehow making this restaurant work in the way it is suppose to. or maybe i'm just over thinking the situation...