To
understand fully the ultimate experience of this, one must understand
the fact that I seldom go to see movies anymore. I find most of them
pretty predictable and idiotic, but that’s just me. I also don’t do
malls very often.
3 The fun thing is that I went to this place
called the Great Mall expecting a western version of the Great Wall of
China, but really, it’s just a mall. Like, you know. A mall. I don’t
get out to malls very much. Avoid going in them. This was the Great
one. Fancy that.
4 I had a few minutes to burn before the movie
so I walked around. At first I just thought of how far we’ve come in
terms of our daily routines.
5 Human beings, that is.
6
I just goofed on how ridiculously fast and insane modern times are. I
thought about people a hundred years ago living much slower lives,
enjoying Sundays in the park with friends, few cars, and a much slower
pace.
7 Fast-forward to Sunday night at the Great Mall.
People moved at a locomotive pace, shopping, licking ice cream cones,
jumping on little lit things on the floor, things that moved…you get
the drift.
8 I wasn’t amazed or anything, just suddenly aware of how absurd life has gotten.
9
I still had time to burn, however, and decided that goofing on the
hectic pace of even a Sunday in modern times was absurd, an effort in
cynical futility.
10 Suddenly this heavy-set guy came right
into my view. He had a potato nose. He was holding his wife’s hand. She
had a potato nose.
11 I then came up with an old theory: people are drawn to people who resemble themselves.
12
I did a mini-study, right there on the spot. Soon, a lady who resembled
a French poodle walked by with a husband who had a skinny face, long
nose, and curly hair. He too looked like a French poodle.
13 It
continued in an uncanny way. A guy with a jughead had a girlfriend with
a jughead. A guy with mean eyebrows held hands with a woman with mean
eyebrows.
14 In some cases, even the children looked like them.
15
It was GREAT fun and pretty easy for YOU to do as well. The theory is
that people are attracted to people who have their own traits.
16
I finally realized that the theory was correct, and I even went on Google to see if there were articles about look-alike couples. There
were a few articles. I didn’t really want to spend the evening reading
about it, but it was pretty interesting. Here is a picture of a
look-alike couple from one of the articles:
