when you stare into space you are generally looking in the direction furthest away. its when you have been left to your own thoughts, and with no-one to talk to but yourself, and the pointlessness of losing your eyes cause it takes too much effort you just stare at no place in particular. If you're staring in to space, don't stare at any else, especially not your secret crush, it's weird mate and frowned upon.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)