Thoughtless Acts

When walking from outdoor to indoor, people who wear sunglasses tend to put the glasses on their head, cap, or hang on collar so they can free their hands and wear the glasses back when walking outside.

I usually use long chopsticks to cook meals since it's easier for me to "control" ingredients inside a pan or pot.

I've notice this phenomena quite often in Berkeley, but I was unable to get a picture.  If a pedestrian is in a hurry to cross the street, he/she may cross when no cars are coming even if the crosswalk sign is still red. However, this causes a chain reaction, resulting in many other pedestrians blindly following the original pedestrian across the street. These pedestrians tend to assume that it's safe to walk since someone else began crossing.

How much thought actually goes into a "thoughtless act"? The attached picture is something that I think many people will be familiar with: a piece of outgoing mail clipped to the outside of a wall-mounted mailbox. I live in a house with 3 others - we keep a binder clip on the rim of the mailbox, and it has become quite rusty from exposure. Sometimes we all have enough outgoing mail that it seems like it will finally break.

To find a thoughtless act I searched in my surroundings for one and while driving down the road in San Francisco I came upon a situation that seemed thoughtless but with reason. I was unable to capture an image due to a fast changing light and inability to point and shoot my camera to the scene so I have made a sketch that represents the situation encountered.

1. Using the table legs to prop up my feet: because I am short and do not comfortably reach the floor from my chair, I tend to sit near the edges of tables so that I can prop one or both of my feet on the flat table legs that stick out.

2. Passenger side courtesy: when I am in the passenger seat of a car when someone else is driving, I tend to push my head back against the seat and make sure my hands and anything I am holding are out of the way, when the driver needs to look through my window, either at the side mirror or just on that side of the car.

Thoughtless Act.

People will sit where there is a seat, even if the seat is not formally a seat. This picture is one of a girl who has chosen to sit on of the ledge of the main entrance to the Downtown Berkeley Bart. Despite there being plenty of bench seating she selected to sit on the ledge of the cylindrical structure. 

I found this scene in my aunt's house. The caps were hung at doorknob of storeroom, which is on the way to garage. Since my cousin often forgets to bring her cap she is used to hang her caps there.

If she puts a cap hanger next to the garage door, she won't need to hang the caps at doorknob of storeroom.

I was cleaning out my apartment and had an old air conditioning filter that I needed to throw away. I left it on the floor and continued cleaning and moving around different items. I needed a temporary place to store all of my earrings and realized the filter was designed perfectly as an earring holder.