Oblivious

For some reason, I was extremely tired this week. So tired, in fact, that after school on Friday I put my head down on my desk to rest for a moment. I was wearing a pair of gigantic, dangle earrings, one of which I removed because the numerous dangling beads and metal pieces were poking into my head.

In the middle of my much needed rest, the phone rang and the caller delivered some good news—the robot will be throwing the first pitch at our local baseball stadium, which is home to a major league farm team. We had been throwing the idea around for some time and I excitedly left my classroom to share the good news with some robotics team members and advisors who were next door in the computer lab. I spoke to at least ten people in two separate rooms all while wearing only one gigantic, dangle earring.

Not one person, not one person, mentioned the fact that I was missing an earring, even though my hair was pulled back into a ponytail and my earrings, in addition to their size, jangle like wind chimes. Tell me, are these hard to miss?

Comments

[Benji]

Well you wore the one earring thing so well, we all probably thought you were just starting your own fad and were thinking of how we could jump on the now cool bandwagon. Prom was fun though, eh?

[Zandria]

I agree with Benji -- they probably didn't want to seem "uncool" themselves by pointing out what they thought you did on purpose. Cute earrings, by the way!

[Alexandrialeigh]

Wow, you have GREAT SKIN. I am jealous. What products do you use?

[Alexandrialeigh]

Oh -- and I totally would've mentioned the earring thing. Mostly out of a need to know if my usual earring duo is outdated. Because I must keep up with the trends.

[bethany]

No, no they are not hard to miss. Who knows sometimes I notice something about someone that should be pointed out but for some reason my brain just dosent form the words. It's weird people are always like "why didn't you tell me I had something in my teeth" and i'm like "I don't know cause I totally noticed" Mybe i'm conscous but sub-conscously so.

[Kat]

I can't believe NO ONE mentioned it. I always tell people when they're missing an earring.

[royal leisure]

i probably wouldn't mention it too even if i notice it, since it's not too uncommon for young people to wear a huge earring on just one side. :)

[Chris]

I know nothing about the earring thing but the robot pitch thing is pretty cool ;-) Great pic too.

[Malia]

I could speculate as to why you are so tired, but I won't. As for the earring, I bet I wouldn't say anything at first, but after a couple of times seeing you like that, I would be like, "WTF?"

Malia

[Alison]

I don't know about the earring, but day-um, that's a great picture of you!

[Maribeth]

Only if I didn't have my glasses on!

[alfredsmom]

I bet you went back to school today and everyone was doing the whole "one earring" thing... :)