{"id":1241,"date":"2011-03-15T15:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-03-15T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T03:01:43","slug":"people-watching-in-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"People Watching in Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Spent 45 minutes today people watching. Was on Santa Fe\u2019s Guadalupe Street at one of Charlotte\u2019s favorite second-hand stores, so, while she was inside looking for bargains, I sat on a bench outside looking for, well, not really \u201cfor,\u201d but \u201cat\u201d people. Below are my notes:<\/p>\n

Women dress to shop; men don\u2019t. And, while the males of most species are the most colorfully adorned, such is not the case for homo sapiens<\/em>. Here\u2019s a 30-something woman wearing a lime-green blouse, a royal blue hat and a bright orange scarf (Tennessee orange not Texas).<\/p>\n

I bought a fire-engine-red vest last year, and my wife tells me it\u2019s too bright. Why? Something to do with looking cheap, a condition I\u2019m evidently pretty good at achieving.<\/p>\n

And, when couples shop, there\u2019s no doubt who’s in charge. She is. That is, men always walk behind their significant others. At least, they did today on Guadalupe Street.<\/p>\n

Also, it\u2019s important for guys to know what to say, or leave unsaid. For instance, this woman looks in the window and says a certain purse has her name on it. To which her man replies \u201cSure honey.\u201d I thought it was the right answer; evidently not. \u201cDon\u2019t you \u2018sure honey\u2019 me,\u201d she said with a tone that ended the conversation.<\/p>\n

And I noticed a lone lady shopper in her 50s\u2014how could one not notice her\u2014who was wearing what appeared to be her husband\u2019s shirt\u2014only<\/em> his shirt. You know, a dress shirt with long tails, giving the appearance of a slit up the sides, way up the sides. Anyway, the shirt hung down to mid-thigh where it met some flesh-colored leggings which disappeared into knee-high boots.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been to a 40-year high school reunion, you\u2019ve seen just the look. There\u2019s always one present.<\/p>\n

My most engaging subject was a cute five or six-year-old \u00a0girl, \u00a0who wanted to examine the Indian brave statue sitting at the store\u2019s entrance. \u201cThe sign says \u2018don\u2019t touch,\u2019\u201d warned her mom. \u201cThis is a ‘look-only’ man.\u201d Wise advice I thought; will be even wiser in 10 years.<\/p>\n

The little girl grinned as she passed me, which, come to think of it, is what the lady in the long shirt did, too. Hmm. These are the females I attract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent 45 minutes today people watching. Was on Santa Fe\u2019s Guadalupe Street at one of Charlotte\u2019s favorite second-hand stores, so, while she was inside looking for bargains, I sat on a bench outside looking for, well, not really \u201cfor,\u201d but \u201cat\u201d people. Below are my notes: Women dress to shop; men don\u2019t. And, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}