My ears are burning

Or at least my spider sense tells me when somebody's talking about me. Ok so it's not exactly like my ears actually gets hot, or I have a rash. It's more like I know when somebody's talking about me. Nothing ESP like such as when somebody in another part of the city talks about me. No, it's more like when somebody talks about me in the same room, either in a different language, whispering, or talking to somebody else on the phone. Sometimes you can catch parts of what they're saying if they're whispering, or half of the conversation if they're on the phone.

So how do I do it? It's pretty easy actually, most people tend to look at that person when they start talking about them. The smarter ones won't look at you when they know you're looking at them. But if you're not looking at them, have your head turned away, or focusing on something else, such as a object or another conversation, they'll have a tendency to look at you and talk about you.

Of course if you're not actively deploying your "I'm not paying attention to you" cloaking shields, it's not easy to eavesdrop their conversation, especially if you're wrapped up in another conversation. You'll only get to catch a couple of words, if any. I have a tendency to take those couple of words, and attempt to reconstruct their conversation about me in my head. Take for instance yesterday during another one of the pagaent events, I was walking by and my spider sense was tingling, and I heard what might have been the word "Thai" from two of the girls that was looking at me. I know they don't think I'm Thai, so I think in my head what other word might sound like Thai, and Tall sounds kinda like Thai, which means they were commenting on how Tall I was.

Ok, I know what you're thinking, that's quite a bit of a stretch, but I get these things, and I really think that I'm really close. Even harder are the half of a phone conversation. Yesterday as I was giving one of the girls a ride home, she was on the phone on a conference call with some of her sorority sisters. As a couple of people came online in the conference call, a bit of chit chat goes on until everyone else gets on, like most people do when they know the people they're talking with. As I was driving, I notice her take a quick glance at me and says "Uh... We'll talk about that later." Ding Ding goes my spider senses, and I know that subject was about me, but she didn't want to say anything in front me. Yah I know what you're thinking. She's talking about her meeting, she's not really talking about you. But I'm telling you, my spidey senses were tingling there.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I could also be conceited and think I'm the center of attention and everyone's talking about me.