42 - They were wearing matching masks.
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I'm out for a walk the other night, and there's
this mini-mall out past the old town hall that
caved in the other year. Not really any stores
left in that mini-mall I think, well maybe old
Turk is open and trying to sell some junk when the
gout's not so bad. But anyways, there's still a
street lamp lit by the turn-in, and as I'm walking
past I see someone walking out of the mall
there. And I see it's elf, and they're walking a
dog on a leash. And they've got this red wool cap
on with blinking micro-LED christmas lights pinned
onto it. The kind what runs off an AA or
something. And I'm thinking that's pretty cool,
when I notice there's more. This elf is wearing a
covid face mask -- and get this, the dog, which is
some shaggy black poodle or something, is wearing
one too! A matching one!
And you know, the Olds can't get the covid, so
this one's just rocking the mask for the style of
it. (And of course the dog too.) But I never used
to see elfs with dogs years ago when they first
started appearing around here. I think it's just
another of those bits of homo-sap culture they've
sort of picked up and made their own. Like with
clothes. They take human clothes, and mod them up
until they're new and cool. Once I saw some elfs
who'd took all these colorful mens' ties, cut them
into pieces and sewed them all dangling from their
shirt arms, like feathered wings. Or they'll hang
a digital wrist watch on their head with string
somehow, so that the time part is hanging in
middle of their forehead. And they've totally gone
to town with the vanity covid masks. Rhinestones,
embroidery, shiny foil, all that. Maybe one day
we'll stop wearing those, but I bet you the elfs
never will. But the christmas-light hat tonight,
that's a new one to me. I got to get me one of
those.
