Yet over one-third of all visitors to national forests indulge in some form of mechanised recreation, including staring at the scenery out of the car window.
Activities within the space have included staring at the wall, slow walking, and counting grains of rice, the aim being to encourage people to be "present in the moment".
Other inappropriate behavior included staring at women's breasts, massaging an intern's shoulders, asking a woman how she felt about sexual harassment and asking women to twirl for him, according to CNN.
The experts I spoke to for this story say other signs of distress include staring at other people's plates during meals, cutting food into tiny pieces, and eating extremely slowly.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which filed the complaint on May 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Dynamic Medical Services required employees to engage in activities including staring at someone for eight hours while motionless, screaming at ashtrays and pushing someone out of the way to get through a door.
Once, when I was showing prospective parents around the school and boarding house, I opened a door to one of the younger girls' rooms and was faced with countless communist Soviet posters (even Yuri Gagarin was included) staring down at me.
I saw "Pisa nello: Painter to the Renaissance Court" with Bridget Riley, the British painter, whose early memories include staring wide-eyed at Pisanello's "Vision of St. Eustace" in the gallery more than half a century ago, a picture that fascinated her then because of the animals in it.
Instead, he does everything in his power, including staring for minutes mesmerized at sights that he has seen a thousand times.
This includes excessively staring at, touching, or remarking on private parts or making numerous perverted comments, even after being told to stop.
Universities were running out of money, students were facing financial hardship and the whole public sector, higher education included, was staring at early serious cuts in the budget, whatever the general election result.
