My Personal Heaven

I am obsessed with old people. Seriously, obsessed. I love everything about them: their wrinkly faces, the combed-over, white hair, and best of all, the vast array of multi-colored suspenders. Every time I see one of those shiny bald heads or saggy, age-spotted faces, I pretty much have to stop myself from breaking into a happy dance.

Recently, as luck would have it, I discovered the favorite meeting place of the old and wrinkly: Costco, on coupon day. I'm telling you, that place was crawling with white-haired people clutching coupons and meandering down the isles at the speed of snail. Discounts and dollar hot dogs draw in the old folks like you wouldn't believe. And shopping amongst them was like visiting my personal heaven. I even got the chance to take a few secret pictures. Those pictures, combined with the plethora of old people, pretty much made my whole year.

Rainbow suspenders?! Can I please keep him?

When we got to the food court area, I made sure to pick the table right in the middle of the old people action. Then this sweet old man smiled at me by the soda fountain and I almost died of happiness.

How can anyone resist these old, sagging faces and possibly toothless grins?! I know I sure can't. So next time you're at Costco, keep an eye out. Maybe you'll begin to understand what I'm talking about.

Until then, I'll be in the food court trying to make a new [old] friend.

Secret Hobbies

One of my very favorite hobbies was introduced to me by my college roomie, Katie. One day, while shopping in Fascinations, she witnessed something that just could not properly be described in words. So what did she do? She took a secret picture and texted it to me! And that's when it all started...my love for the art of secret picture taking.

Since then, I have photographed many unsuspecting people. Like the man in front of me at the pharmacy who looked like a velour sweat suit wearing Santa with a leather hat. Or the midget walking down the street dressed as a Hawaiian hula dancer. In situations such as these, a text simply saying, "Guess what I just saw?!" just would not do justice. Photographic proof is absolutely necessary.

So, the other day, while I was walking into the store, I looked up to see this:

Nuns! Instantly, I knew there was no way I could pass up the opportunity for a secret picture. At the time, I was a little worried that it was sacrilegious to take secret pictures of nuns, but then I decided that if it brought me such joy, the nuns would probably say it was ok anyway.

So imagine my excitement when these two nuns got in line right in front of me! Because, let me tell you, there is nothing I love more than a close up secret picture! [If you plan on doing this, just be sure to turn off the camera noise on your phone. Otherwise it's not very secret. I learned that the hard way. But that's a whole other story.] Now, I have this beauty to add to my ever growing collection:

I can not even tell you how happy this picture makes me. Does that make me a wierdie? Maybe. But honestly, haven't you ever taken a secret picture of someone?