watching from the background

I spent the afternoon at the carousel again. This time with one of my favorite people, the very talkative and very odd Anna HoHoHo. She regaled me with more wild tales of her upbringing. It was an uneventful day. The standout moment of the day was toward the end of our shift when a small gaggle of sorority girls came in. They acted as expected...loud, self-absorbed, taking far too many selfies, each trying to attract as much attention to themselves as possible. I scanned each of their tickets trying hard to ignore the displays of self-obsession. I got to the last girl, a thin brunette with big tortoise shell nerd glasses. As I scanned her tickets she nervously laughed, saying "Your beard is really sexy". My salt-and-pepper beard (growing more salty by the day) and I thanked her as she walked off. I turned to Anna, who said "She must have daddy issues". Ha!