What innocent activity makes you feel like you look suspicious?

1. Clicking to a new window when one of my supervisors walks by. I'm not doing anything wrong, I just have to jump through several windows a lot to get stuff done.
   — SalemScout


2. Realizing you’re waking the wrong direction and having to turn around.
   — deadpoop69


3. Simply driving past a cop... Even if I'm going the speed limit, have my seat belt on, licence and registration in glove compartment. I still sit up straight and make myself look as professional as possible like "nothing to see here officer".
   — lenerz






4. Noticing a camera, and then repeatedly looking at the camera. The target near me has cameras above self checkout now. I can see the video it's recording. So the entire fucking time I accidentally catch myself looking at myself lol.
   — AntisocialDiggle


5. Researching references or guides for story writing, especially in the horror, mystery, or crime area (e.g. "Lethal back stab points", "Back stabbing simulator", "List of poisons", "Types of plant poisons and side effects" etc). I want to be medically accurate, but damn I also don't want to be on a list either. EDIT: Thank you for the suggestions on how to be more subtle with this. Also, I love reading everyone's stories on why they also have unusual browser histories. Keep it coming.
   — ShiroiTora


6. Geocaching Yeah, you're searching for some cool ass box hidden somewhere, but most of the time you look like you're trying to hide a dead body or plant a bomb.
   — tdime23






7. One time thing, but when I was walking in Korea with my fiancee's niece. She starts crying because I won't buy her candy and so now you have a big white guy trying to drag away a crying Korean 4 year old. I'm sure that got a lot of people around me pretty suspicious.
   — jurassicbond


8. Standing in front of a product in a store for a long time while still trying to decide whether you should buy it or not then hearing over the store’s intercom “Security check on area 4. Security check on area 4.”.
   — don-golem


9. Putting my phone back in my purse at a store, if I've had it out for some reason. I always stand out in the open and make a big production of it so no one thinks I'm shoplifting.
   — GooGooGajoob67






10. Just happening to be walking behind a woman, going in the same direction for an awkward period of time, making the same turns. Especially at night. "I'M NOT FOLLOWING YOU GOD DAMN IT, WE'RE JUST GOING THE SAME WAY", screams my inner monologue. Then I speed up to try and overtake her just to prove I have no ill-intent and she looks around *just* as I begin to get closer to her. It's fucking unbearable man.
    — Daimo


11. I don't know if this qualifies or not. I had a dog and before my dog got fixed she had menstruation in every few months. My girlfriend and I would buy some underwears, basically, underwear of small kids, cut a hole for the tail of dogs and put pads in them to put on my dog, so the blood can not spread everywhere. Though it is a Long story, but I am telling short. Some of my friends had come over for beers, one looks in my linen closet to find little boys underwear with a hole cut out the back and many cleaned off blood stains. It took some explaining after that.
    — genrelucy


12. Walking behind a woman on the sidewalk at night
    — kingeryck