Re: can you identify mrs chin plucker ( photo attached )
Consideration for others is one of the finer attributes of civilization - the rising above our inclinations to club each other on the head over the drumstick, urniate on the good furniture, etc.
A few years back I was at a national park where, at sunset, tens of thousands of bats rise out of a subterranean cave and spiral up into the desert twighlight in search of insects through the night. It's an unmatched experience.
Imagine the setting - a small and lovely ampitheater cut out of the natural stone, ledges fringed with scrub and cacti in front of a vast black cave opening in giant monoliths of sandstone. As the shadows crept longer and anticipating the bats, I was in a peaceful state of bliss....until....
Some horrid woman directly up one row behind me, started cutting her fingernails....clip, clip....clip, snap. Nail fragments spinning and flying in my general direction...
Determined not to let it bother me, I ignored her questionable choice of time and location to undergo a full manicure by focusing on a striped lizard making its way along a crevice - that is until she got to her toenails.
I couldn't take it anymore.
I turned around slowly and, for the first time ever, gave her....
that look that our mothers spend decades honing to perfection
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She looked at me and simply uttered, "Whuttt?"
I slowly turned back around, wondering whether or not the bats below were likewise down there waiting for the sun to set, getting in each other's spaces and otherwise driving each other crazy
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