Hey, coffee lovers!
I hope your week is going great, with good coffee and pleasant company, and hopefully some good laughs, which is, by the way, related to the topic for The Coffee Shop Prompt #91 😁☕
Me eating my unhealthy breakfast with lots of gluten and lactose after a long day of physical labor at TodoHogar, Lecheria` 🤫
I always laugh a lot when I meet my sisters for coffee. Of course, there have been exceptions, such as when we meet for coffee to drain worries or sadness over an unfortunate event. It can't all be laughs and bliss, right? Anyway, I always talk about these episodes about my sisters and I going for coffee and telling old jokes, and I seem to forget to write about the great, fun times I had with my son when he was a teenager and his leaving the country for good didn't cross our minds. He's a perfect coffee companion: smart talker, fun to be with and always remembers where to turn to get to the coffee shops--and everywhere--inside the mall, a task that is beyond my abilities to this day, lol.
I remember one time I was with my son and some of his friends at a café in Marina Plaza, Cumaná; we had just watched a movie and were about to leave, but my car wouldn't start and so we were waiting for a friend to help me. In the meantime, I took the kids to a cafeteria to get something to eat. That's where it happened: We saw “The Eyebrows.”
Half cheese bread and a latte. I knew it was too much.
Around that time, in 2006, a new and fateful fad took hold and like every third out of ten women decided to tattoo their eyebrows in unnatural ways, hehe. Here's the taxonomy--or part of it--my son and I constructed that afternoon with a little help from his friends as different women passed in front of us sporting their dystopian eyebrows, as they and their eyebrows walked to unknown destinations.
I Feel Incredibly Happy
There were the “I feel incredibly happy” eyebrows whose mold had been the rim of a glass; the expression on these women was like one who was really, really happy, but didn't believe it--hence the "incredible," (snort laugh, oink-oink)--; so while the rest of her face said “I don't believe in anything or anyone in this life,” the eyebrows said “Yey!” Definitely material for a Martian Chronicle.
McDonald's M
Then there was the “McDonald's M,” whose morphology needs no explanation due to the graphic and accurate naming, hahahah. What did they use as a pattern for this? I wouldn't know, thank goodness.
Hug Me, 'coz I'm Cold
Then there were the “Hug me, 'cause I'm cold” eyebrows. These eyebrows were thin with a short tail, slightly arched and tattooed just above the natural line with the head pointing slightly upward so that the inner corner was inverted. You'd really get a memorable impression when out of nowhere you would meet these eyebrows head on; your first impulse was to hug the person to warm and soothe them, but right there came the second impulse, to run away before you bursted out laughing right there.
Oh, my! There were others,
but it's hard not to be politically incorrect... stereotypical, xenophobic; it's hard. Besides, three is a good number. Three categories is fine, hehe. I'll just tell you that the fourth type of eyebrow is associated with a phenotype of abundant hair. Anyway, we really laughed that day and come to think of it, my son never got to bring home a girlfriend with tattooed eyebrows...
Sometimes enough is enough 😜
I could not get past this point.
All text and images are my own. I have taken the pictures with my Redmi 9T cell phone. And if any GIFs here, I've used GIPHY for all them.
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LOL! These eyebrow descriptions SENT me! Gosh, 2000-2010ish were such a time for eyebrows 🤣! The tattoo thing caught on here, but not quite as much as plucking them down to several hairs connected to a dotlike shape near the nose. I couldn't help but think of them as sperm eyebrows, weird health class textbook representations clouding my giggly mind 😂
I think a lot of the best memories are ones where we make the most of a tough situation. Now I bet you're glad that you had car troubles that day when you sit with this memory. Life sure is mysterious with its gifts haha 💕
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About making the most of a tough situation, I think we get a lot of practice while raising our children and then taking care of our old folks. In the end, we hold some memory treasures.
Thank you so much for dropping by, and for appreciating the humor... I ten years time we may be making fun of bushy eyebrows 🤭
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A sweet occasional sweet might not do too much harm.
I can't see the design on your T-shirt very well, but it looks so similar to the design of the coffee cup.
I just got out of bed and it's freezing so I'm gonna get my coffee going:)))
Hey, @millycf1976! ☕️
I hadn't noticed. The picture is tricky.
I couldn't find one of 1979, so I bought this one because I liked it, and because it was on sale 😄
I loved reading your taxonomy of eyebrows, very clever indeed. At first I thought it was about a coffee shop where they did makeup, hahaha. Thanks for sharing dear @marlyncabrera . A big hug from Maracay.
That taxonomy was a collaboration, hehe. My son did most part. We were talking on the phone today and a good laugh about that old joke.
Thank you so much for dropping by, dear @irvinc, and for appreciating the humor ☕❤️
Hahaha... I died of laughter, seeing you tell all these eyebrow stereotypes and I thought OMG 🫣🫣🫣
What good times are spent while having a coffee 🙌🙌🙌
Oh, friend! That was crazy, seeing all those funny eyebrows 🤭🤣
We had a lot of fun that day. Yes, coffee time can be awesome. Thank you so much for dropping by 😁 Have a beautiful afternoon ☕❤️
jajajaja when I read the title I didn't imagine that you were going to describe so many types of eyebrows, you made me laugh! apparently you and your son are very creative! 😁
Oh, i'm glad you laughed. It's an old, fun, and dear memory.
Thank you so much for dropping by, and for your nice words. Have a beautiful evening ☕❤️
What a heartwarming and nostalgic reflection! ❤️❤️
Missing my son so much, dear friend. Best coffee afternoons ever.
Thank you so much for dropping by ☕️ Have a great day!❤️
In these modern times you see many curious things, some more extravagant that make us wonder what it could be like.🤭 I see you spent an afternoon of tattooed eyebrows and delicious coffees.😋
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.☕
Excellent day.
Thank YOU, dear friend ❤️ I miss those days, funny eyebrows and all 😁
Have a great day!☕