
So I had a "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" moment today.
I was walking down the street and a handsome young man was walking behind me keeping time with my steps. We were only a foot apart from one another. Both of us were exchanging glances as start-crossed lover do. We got to a cross walk and had to wait for the light. There we were right next to each other I could feel the heat coming off him. The light said cross so I waited, I thought to myself "This time I'll walk behind him and make sure he's looking at me" Thus I waited a foot behind, he only glanced back once. I decided to real show my feathers and started my "Men-can't keep their paws off" strut and as I was flaunting myself down the street, I noticed a bunch of glass windows coming up. Again I thought how he will look in the glass to see the reflection of me behind him. So I REALLY turned it on. When we got to the window, I looked ahead at his handsome reflection and he didn't turn at all. Suddenly I saw in the window, not a cute young blond, 125 pound kid with a toothy grin. I saw ME, yes ME as I am TODAY
If you have ever seen 'What ever happened to Baby Jane" you know what happened next. No longer did "Baby Ben" look back out the window at me but I saw MYSELF. Those high-boned cheeks were all filled out. There were a few faint lines around the eyes. That toothy grin looked like a mouth full of piano keys, some missing, and most yellow. I saw that the skinny kid was now fighting a "muffin top" above his out-of-date pants. That once famous hair was cut in a conservative doo, based on economics and maintenance, rather then style. "HOW did this happen" I yelled, and just like Bettie Davis I charged towards the reflection!. Thank God I stopped myself from breaking the window. "What kind of a sick joke is this?" I screamed. Passers by look on and mumbled. "What Happened?"
I regained myself, pulled my sweater over the "muffin top", and adjusted my coat, ran my lanky-awkward fingers through my cheap haircut and started to walk, "muffin top" held high. Needless to say amongst the screaming terrors and "letters to Daddy" my handsome fox disappeared, never to bee seen again.
"The world took pity on Norma Desmond, the dream she clung onto fo so long had finally unfolded her"








































