I recently had a brilliant idea: the lunatic stare. It's not overly threatening, but if you can manage it without doing the other crazy stuff -- muttering, fumbling or shuffling your feet, and just act in a normal manner EXCEPT FOR THIS STARE . . . people are going to be pulling their children away from you and begging you to go first.
The key is, you have to act totally normal, but maintain the stare. Count out your money while staring at the clerk, not the money. ACT TOTALLY NORMAL.
But maintain the stare.
Please sir, please back away from the wicket...
ReplyDeleteSince that breakthrough, I have an even better one: The Dead Eyes trick.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine a corpse that's been underwater for about three days. Just imagine what its eyes (open, of course) look like.
Try to imitate that with your own. Now, the key to the trick! Add a goofy grin! Just the goofiest grin you could ever manage!
I won't attempt to duplicate that photographically, as it would send me into fits of giggles, but just imagine what effect that would have upon the harried checkout clerk at the local grocery store!
But I do like the lunatic stare.
You can even do the stare over the internet! You look like you're hungry for brains! Hehe! : )
ReplyDeleteYes! Brains. Then the Dead Eyes with the grin will indicate to the unfortunate recipient that I have finally dined of brains and am still hungry!
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