Oddity, Week 3

While my husband and I were waiting for our to-go order of Chinese food the other day, a woman walked into the restaurant with her young daughter. While that in and of itself is not unusual, what I found interesting was that her daughter, who could not have been more than about nine or ten years old, looked like a complete miniature of her mother. I don’t mean that she resembled her mother in facial features, although she did, what I mean is that she wore tight jeans on her spindly, boyish legs, knee high, leather boots (I have a pair which my brother calls my hooker boots), a fitted sweater, and long chunky necklace. This ten-year-old had a small cell phone to her ear and designer sunglasses propped on top of her head, just like her mother. The one difference between her outfit and her mother’s was that the little girl had a much bigger purse than her mother’s. Her petite little figure carried a brown leather purse that my husband joked he could fit her inside of with no undue effort (and he wasn’t far off the mark). Upon closer inspection, I realized that the little girl also had on eyeliner and mascara, what looked like bronzer on her cheeks, and a shimmery lip gloss painted her lips. Truth be told, occurrences like this are not really an oddity now, but I remembered back to when I was that age and thought that the sight would most definitely have been odd then, and that was only 18 years ago.