Double Shot at the Mall Today
While on a standard type of clothes-hunt at the Galleria today, I spied two rare lifeforms wandering the marble floors. Observe:
To the left of the image you have a rather sad figure, the lone frat-boy.
Observed more regularly in bands of three or more (and in their native south-eastern Missouri habitat) this individual frat boy looked rather nervous and ill-at-ease without his standard protective pack formation.
His posture and body language (clenched fists not visible in this image) indicate his discomfiture at this solo excursion. Though his plumage boastfully indicates that (in their native territory) his pack is “kind of a big deal” I think we can all agree this is not the case at the time the photo was taken and the contrast between his evoked status and actual status make us a little sad.
In front and to the right of the lone frat boy, we have an even more rare phenom the Midwestern Guido!
I was excited to spot these three youngsters together, and wish that the faux-hawk sported by the left-most Guido was more visiible. They are still in a formative stage, as the collar on the middle Guido remains mercifully un-popped, and full-on tanorexia has yet to set in. But the copious amounts of hair gel, the gold chains and those douchey plaid shorts (guy on the extreme right is clearly lower-status, as he is wearing rayon manpris, meaning that either he cannot afford douche-plaid or was not contacted prior to the excursion to inform him that douche-plaid was de rigueur.) show that these fledglings are well on their way to becoming full-Guido.
We don’t see a lot of this in the St. Louis area, so I was excited to get them on camera, with the lone frat-boy as pure bonus!
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