Honestly, People, Just Play Honestly

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I can understand the wanting to take on a challenge, or even to🖕🏾 the "man" on this, but just because one can do something doesn't mean one should. I suppose me being one to do something honestly puts me in the minority, though.

Pokémon GO Outing

(From a Facebook post)

So, I'd decided to spend part of my day off at Mercer, because it's (sadly, some might say) got a variety of pokémon and a few pokéstops.

It kind of turned into some fun afternoon of anthropological observations for me, too.

• 20-something Asian female obviously doing the one-finger flick one does when trying to capture a pokémon 

• 20-something White female in athletic clothing walking with her phone (and I think we both went for the same nidoran♂, but she got it)

• group of 13 pre-teen and teenaged summer campers gathered around two different pokéstops with lures engaged every so often squealing with glee as they capture various pokémon (with one newly-deepened voice yelling "OMG, there's a squirtle over there!" and the rest scampering after him), after which I verbally comment "Oh, youthful exuberance…"

• 20-something White male with a man bun/top knot who's putting #PokémonGO into his fitness regimen because he's obviously been jogging back and forth between the five six pokéstops spread across campus

•40-something African male who's been walking between pokéstops with his phone with a sheepish, but slightly embarrassed, look on his face whenever we cross paths at said pokéstops

• 20-something athletically fit White male stopped in the shadow of a tree in front of the student center/campus pokémon gym (currently under #TeamInstinct) furiously tapping at his iPhone screen

• 50-something Black female who nearly collided with a parked 2012 Ford Taurus while scouting pokémon

I love when I'm actually able to use my major actively.

#GoFIUAnthropology #SuburbanAnthropologist