An Eye Full

I accidentally stared at someone today. For several minutes. How can you accidentally stare at someone?

Perhaps you were sitting in the break room with nothing to do so you started gazing around at the walls. You continued just gazing off into space, letting your eyes scan the room for anything of interest while at the same time remaining completely disinterested.

Perhaps during one of these scans a fellow worker's eye caught your interest. The eye wasn't looking at you, it caught your interest because there was something just slightly off about it. Imagine that you continue staring at the eye, debating whether it's slightly crossed or maybe a little lazy. By this time of course, the eye is looking at you, but you're lost in your thoughts and have failed to notice.

Until the fellow worker waves his hand at you to get your attention. Then all of the sudden you realize you've been staring directly into this person's eye, which may or may not have some imperfection. I'm still not sure. I mumbled something about staring off into space and did what I always do when embarrassed. I turned bright red and high-tailed it out of there.