ImPerceptibility

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Field Log of ImPerceptibility

Summary : Observations obtained on location at a local middle school

Conclusion: Those adolescents sure are funny.  With all rights reserved to change opinion in a few more years.

Field Notes:

Adolescent Subject A was standing with her mother and her little sister looking at books in the local middle school library. I observed an adolescent male approaching from the right. He was accompanied by another male of approximately the same age. I judged his age to be about 12.

Upon spotting Subject A the male subject lifts his head abruptly up then immediately dropped to stare intently at his feet. This was a signal to the accompanying male to mimic the same shoe staring action.

Subject A then looks up and sees the shoe staring young males and turns her head sharply to the left pretending not to see them.

At a distance of approximately 10 feet from Subject A the male subject mumbles “Hi Oldest” then immediately looks back at his shoes. Accompanying male never breaks the shoe staring pose.

Subject A looks over and mumbles “Hi Keith” then turns her head back to the left. Male subjects proceed forward and look at the stack of manga books.

Little sister appears to be aware that something is amiss but is unsure of the proper social response. So she takes a finger pointer and pretends to pick her nose. This is followed by about 10 minutes of all subjects ignoring each other.

Upon exiting the library the accompanying male looks up at subject A, grins, nods his head and says, “Hi”

Subject A nods but does not verbally acknowledge him. 

The male subject looks at the accompanying male, grin, and says, “That’s what I said”

They proceed to act like normal boys as they walked down the hall and out of the building.

Subject A then turns to her mother and says, “That was Keith.” Then she grins and quickly changes the subject.

Note: Keep an eye on this Keith dude.