I took my niece and two of her friends (10-12 years old) to Crystal’s for lunch. There were two women sitting in a booth. One of them had a big fat pigtail, about a foot long, sticking straight out of the top of her head (there must have been a rebar or something inside it). She was sitting right under a hanging plant, and when she moved, the pigtail would bump the plant and set it swinging (Pigtail Lady seemed totally oblivious to this).
I was very proud of my girls because they did not burst into hysterical giggles until we were actually seated in a booth at the other end of the room. So it wasn’t absolutely obvious what they were laughing at.
Then Pigtail Lady got up to go to the condiment table. A small boy was at the counter waiting for his parents, and when he saw Pigtail Lady, he screeched, “Mommy! Mommy! It’s a Teletubby.” The room fell silent except for the agonized racking coughs of people trying desperately not to laugh. Pigtail Lady remained oblivious.
Finally, Pigtail Lady and her companion left, at which point the entire restaurant broke into laughter. I was sitting by the window and was able to watch Pigtail Lady as she got into her vehicle – she deftly smashed the pigtail to the side so she could get in the door, and she drove off with the damn pigtail pointing stiffly off to the left of her head like a weather vane.
