Every timre we go out, you can guarantee that we get dirty looks off women and teenage girls. It's as if we have offended their family! By now we should take bets on this because we'd be rich.
One memorable dirty look was actually given to us from across three lanes of the motorway. This woman was a passenger in a car in the fast lane - which evidently wasn't fast enough to stop her finding a vent for her family histories problems - and had to physically turn around in her seat to glare at us like we'd just kicked her child. Heaven forbid she had been driving, she would have crashed. Luckily, as the rules of the fast lane permit, she didnt stick around long and we didnt see her again...(this is terrible if you've found a good looking kid in the opposite car) as their car pulled away we sat in a shocked silence that the dirty look had found us in a car.
But then again as Claire pointed out at passing car, "I'm not the one with my cardigan shut in the door."
The most notable and effective dirty look is the 'two generations combo'. This is mostly found in shopping centre's (Merry Hill!) where mother's and daughters are out shopping. We can't quite figure out who gives us the dirty look first.
If the daughter gives us a dirty look by rights the mother feels it is her place to follow suit - who knows, maybe we told the daughter her shoes didnt match the rest of her outfit - but when the mother gives us a dirty look first we can't help feeling theyre glaring at us for very different reasons.
Maybe it was the fact we had been in Merry Hill from 9:45 am until 6 pm and had collapsed against some sort of fixture in the shopping centre; perhaps we just looked really haggard and this isn'd allowed in a place where a stray hair is a killing offence but god... we couldnt sit up straight anymore.
Whatever the cause we attract dirty looks like we attract the mentally deranged... and we don't deserve either.
Saturday, 28 November 2009
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