Friday, I stopped into Hanaroo's, with a friend, for sushi. We had a great time and decided that, since we had not been downtown for quite awhile, we'd walk around a bit. We finally sat on some benches, to engage in one of our favorite past times, people watching.
There was the regular milling of people you would think would be downtown at 2pm on a Friday afternoon, nothing too extraordinary, until........the muppet lady. Yes, I kid you not, we saw a muppet lady. When she was first approaching us, I thought that my eyes (being with out glasses and not being able to see that far off) were playing tricks on me. As she came closer, my friend exclaimed. "She looks like a muppet!" She did indeed look like a muppet. She looked like Beeker in fact. She had a shock of short hair that stood straight up, a pasty white face and an unnaturally large, round, red nose. I could not imagine that someone would be so unfortunate enough to look like this in real life.
My friend and I tried not to stare, covertly stealing glances, so not to be rude and embarrass her. I'm sure she gets a lot of stares. After she had passed us and was a safe distance away, we discuss our sighting. I'm sure she has to have some kind of condition that makes her nose that way and she has my deepest sympathy, but my question is why does she cut her hair in such an unflattering way, to only emphasize her other, not so pleasing features? Did she just give up and say to herself "Well damn, I look like Beeker. If you can't beat them, join them"?
I know I came away feeling very lucky that day and I hope her life is full of riches I can't see.
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