Monday, March 29, 2004

Guys never notice the important stuff

Last night, on The Sopranos...

A.J. passed out, and his friends shaved off his eyebrows. Tony saw him later and eyed him for a bit, trying to figure out what was different about him. Carmella yelled, "He has no eyebrows!" We sipped red wine and giggled.

This reminded me of an old co-worker with no eyebrows. We'll call her Serena, because if I'm going to be a little mean, I don't want to hurt any feelings with real names.

Serena was young, thin and frequently had a thong peeking out from the back of her low, low jeans. She also had very pretty hair. When she started working there, the guys in the office went gaga over her. The girls were perplexed...

Do the guys realize she has no eyebrows?
I don't think so.
How could they not?
We need to investigate.

And we did investigate. I had this same conversation with a lot of boys in the office about Serena, as did my female coworkers.

Do you think Serena is hot?
Yeah, totally.
You don't notice anything strange about her?
No, why.
Dude, you didn't notice that she has no eyebrows?
What, like, she plucks them too thin?
No, like they don't exist.
No way.
Seriously, check it out.

Moments later...

Jess?
What?
Serena has no fucking eyebrows! That's so weird.

I can understand that the boys may have been more interested in the thong and the rack than the missing eyebrows, but seriously. Let's be a little more observant than Tony Soprano, guys.