Tableau Vivant

This afternoon everyone decided to get all dressed up and go out to the corner to try to get themselves noticed.

After a while one of the party expressed the hope that a limousine might pull up and offer them a ride downtown. There was even a request made that the group be permitted to walk down to Rainier Avenue to see if they could attract the attentions of a chauffeur there. This request was emphatically, if reluctantly, denied (but the thought was thoroughly, if privately, enjoyed).

But just as half a dozen lower lips began to jut out in unison -- lo! A genuine, real live limousine drew nigh. Alas, it was already engaged to drive some other people -- a bunch of disheveled slobs, we can only imagine -- somewhere else.

No matter. The spirits of our crew had been restored, and then some.