Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Can't stop the signal

Great moments in micro-reactions...

Two people. He's a nerdy hippie guy. Glasses, long hair, bad goatee. She's kind of dyke-y, short hair, kind of round, vaguely Hispanic. None of this technically has anything to do with it, but I think it's what the people call "setting the scene." In any case...

The body language is interesting, hard to explain the dynamic. Kind of like two acquaintances meeting up, where one of them (him?) kind of roped her into coming, although they arrived separately. Anyway, at some point, he decides to blow his nose. He pulls out one of those paisley-ish hippie bandanas (blue, not red). And he blows it. A good, thick one. She already had her hand close to her mouth. But for a second, she looked like someone seeing an autopsy. Total disgust. And not even at the act proper, but him--"How can he DO that?"

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