After work Rabbit and I headed to the local mall for laundry. It’s a classy mall what with laundry facilities and all. Anyway, since we are in the throws of the holiday season the mall features a variety of Santa-related services. Once a week the mall-Santa takes time out of his otherwise busy schedule to charge a tuppence to let you plunk your mongrel or kitty on his lap for a once-in-a-lifetime photo-op.
Rabbit reports that when she first got to the mall (having past the mall’s “NO PETS” sign) she was immediately struck by the volume of dog and cat owners lined up to meet (the no doubt urine-soaked) Santa. The place was really hopping. There were people with pets everywhere. Sometimes with more than one. Cats in carriers and dogs on leashes.
Knowing that my regular readers are neither gullible nor credulous I decided that some concrete evidence of this bizarre event would have to be acquired or no one would believe me. So armed with my disposable Kodak instamatic (with flash) I wandered amongst the crowd and captured what will be nothing short of the finest in Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalism you have yet to see. I have another thirty odd exposures on the roll so you’ll have to be patient. You won’t be disappointed. This roll also features a picture of the automobile one of our local independent (read: non-partisan???) municipal candidates, complete with roof-mounted broadcast devices and sandwich-board placard circa 1935 ~ as taken in the parking lot our building.