The University of Minnesota chapter of Campus People Watchers went out skating with the people over winter break and had high expectations. Fortunately, those expectations were met. "I wanted to see a cute couple holding hands, and what I got was a cute couple holding hands while the man held the girl's purse," said CPW member Katie Derbyshire.

     Many of the other people watchers had a similar experience of seeing more than they wanted. "I wanted to see 'that one guy who tries to impress everyone with his skating ability,' and instead there was this one guy in an orange jacket who was the initial impressive guy, and then that guy was upstaged by an ex-Disney on ice skater, and the first guy's reactions to the second guy's skating ability were incorrigible," said run-on sentence loving, CPW member Joey Cronick

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    The remaining people watchers were delighted with the prototypical "cute ice skating girls in leotards," and the cosmopolitan "swearing faller." The People Watchers themselves were spectacles themselves as none of us knew how to skate well. We fell countless times, puncturing innumerable organs, and I must admit that despite my shattered femur, and sprained tailbone it was better than being bored, alone, and without people to watch.