Hippies Are Fun to See, Like Meeting Locals on Vacation

"Prithy, m'lord, could'st thou speak unto
mine countenance, as mine bosom has
grown a bit deaf of late."

I saw a girl the other day wearing some odd half-slit flowing skirt and what I can only describe as a bodice over a pastel-toned, mass-produced, faux-tie-dye, hyphen-laden peasant blouse. Her mother wore something that would not have been out of place either at Woodstock '69 or Germany 1520.

What, is the Ren Faire in town?

No, that's out of season. At least the local one, is. You'd have to drive pretty far to get to the other one, it's not even in New York state, and that's the better of the two. (The Sterling one.)

So you dress yourself in the dark or something?

Hardly. The corset strings to that bodice might have even required an additional pair of hands, though the girl appeared the type experienced enough to achieve usefully claustrophobic knots on her own.

She was just weird. And goddess bless her for it, we need more interesting people and more bodices in the world.

'Course there was another hippie girl  in last week who appeared as though she had not showered in several days, and smelled as though it had been several weeks, at least from a half-dozen paces, so, yeah, probably don't need any more of those hippies. The bathed ones, sure, though.

Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned From The Renaissance Festival

• Corsets are simultaneously the greatest device ever and the worst false advertising in history.
• A balanced meal consists of a whole turkey leg, funnel cake, and chocolate-covered cheesecake-on-a-stick.
  
• If you wear a situation-appropriate costume, you can pretty much go anywhere, do anything and charge people money to stand next to you while you do it.
• Bare midriffs should not appear on any woman so fat as to have skin flaps forming a belly button in the small of her back.
• Men in tights are significantly more likely to associate exclusively with other men in tights.
• 30 year old men who dress like 13th century samurai are definitely still virgins.
  
• If it looks like a bondage enthusiast, sounds like a bondage enthusiast and walks like a bondage enthusiast, it's probably still a huge nerd.
  
• Sometimes it's just best to play along with the people who refuse to leave you alone.
• Save the Kissing Bridge for late in the date, but before the blooming onion.
• Camels smell awful.