[stylist] Need some help. I want my character to do this...

[Nat Barrett]

Stylist friends,

I need some help. I'm trying to write a short story and I'd like my character to become involved in a situation. The problem is, I don't know if it's possible.

The situation is quite easy to describe, so I'll get straight to it.

I have my character using a public wi-fi spot. Due to all the warnings that you get about using wi-fi and how people can hijack you and see what you're doing, I kind of thought, hmm. Maybe my character can inadvertently see what the person sitting at the next table is doing on their computer. And I don't mean with their eyes. I was thinking from computer to computer.

I only need this character to see a bit of the webpage this other person is using.

So far I've found nothing on the internet that talks about this. And another friend heard what I wanted my character to do and immediately said, not possible, unless my character is trying to deliberately hijack the other person.

At this point, I'm thinking I might just have to do ordinary, cliché ways and have my character just look with their eyes at the other person's computer. Of course, my friend also vetoed this idea, saying that with flat screens and being able to turn your screen off, it'll be hard to see people's screens and what they're doing.

Stylist friends, do any of you have suggestions? I'm even open to ideas. It's important to my whole story that my main character see something on this other person's computer. But I'm kind of fresh out of ideas, different or old.

I even contemplated these characters having identical computers and they accidentally get switched.

Or, I thought, maybe a  public computer. But the setting of this story is nowhere near a place that would have public computers.

Sigh.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. If anyone can offer up some suggestions, I'd be most grateful.

I'll say thanks in advance.
Natalie