Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Padawan Skywalker?

So, I'm walking home from the auto repair shop (see My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma) and I see this guy coming out of the apartment building behind my house. He's clearly going to work--it's about 8:20 in the morning, he's carrying a LL Bean type messenger bag/brief case, wearing heavy khaki pants and the kind of shoes they used to call "Wallabys" back in the day.

All of which would have been fine on a guy in his 20s, but this guy has the thickset build and male pattern baldness of a 47 year old who is still a programmer.

The worst of it is that he's grown the hair around the bald spot long, then pulled it back--no, slicked it back--into a ponytail in the center of the back of his head. Not down at his nape, but in the center of his head, right where Ani Skywalker wears his in The Clone Wars.

Only even Ani wouldn't have borrowed one of his daughter's thick white scrunchie, and left the pony tail part halfway pulled through, so it makes a little sort of bun-thing with the end hairs sticking straight up.

Um, sir? The lesbian biker from Madison called, and she wants her hairdo back. Sure, it's spelled "Padawan Skywalker" but it's pronounced "dork."

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