People Watching #1

So, here are some of my notebook ramblings, based on observing real people.

• Short female, Nice figure, Hair dyed red, with blonde highlights, a quality job. Perfect make-up -- eyeliner, fiercely-red lipstick, subtle silver eyeliner.

• An ex-con with masses of curly, brown hair. Black hoodie, pink cotton shirt, white T-shirt underneath, blue jeans and tan work boots, sunglasses buried in his curls. His cousin says he needs to be given only "idiot-proofed" tasks. "I got dis", says our mop-top. He is arrogant, considered unreliable even by his relatives, expected to fail or cock-up big style. Is it any wonder when he does?

• Plump woman, but not obese, 'heavy boned'? Short red hair, fu'gly glasses, red boucle cardigan over a white top, with unflattering brown trousers that point out her broad *rse. Interfering person who doesn't let her younger brother live his life his own way. 

• Woman in her late twenties attending an informal job interview. Neat black skirt and jacket with a collared, white cotton blouse. Long blonde hair held in a ponytail using a soft ffabric tie. Polite and attentive manner. Sharp nose. Subtle make-up, hardlty there.

• An older man, in his fifties maybe, with full lips, a flabby chin and flapping chops, like there's more skin than his head needs; it jiggles when he speaks. Steel grey hair, plenty of it, a whiter patch at the fringe. Black eyebrows. "I think that looks like ka-ka", he says, inspecting the apprentice's work.

• He's tall, with a cloud of white hair atop his tanned face. She too has cotton-wool hair, though she is easily a foot shorter than him. They look well-suited. Finished shopping, they are heading out, their shopping trolley, pushed by him, is home to just two bags. They brought their own bags with them; it's a military operation this, no nonsense, no extras, strictly what's on their list.