The Iggblog

I was at the movies last night, and I saw some of “those people…”

You know how every person has some undesirable trait or another? The kind of traits that keep a person from looking really good, or traits that just don’t belong? I’m not talking fat, too skinny, bad fashion sense… I’m talking those small natural curses that our maker has set upon us that keep us from being entirely happy with ourselves. Sometimes these traits are by default… Abnormal stockiness, just the wrong sort of hair, eyes are just barely too far apart or too close together. And some traits are by choice… A hillbilly monster of a beard, that unshapely skull that someone felt the need to shave and show off, horribly bushy knuckles left unkempt. These sorts of things.

Somewhere out there, there is a “parts bin.” This parts bin is full of these undesirable traits. Usually people will get one, maybe two. It’s that one thing you obsess over trying to bring out because it’s not enough, or cover up because you think it’s ugly. Usually the powers that be just hand out one or two. But sometimes nature gets in a mischevious mood and throws together a set of people made entirely of parts bin parts. I’m not talking about “birth defects” here. Just people whose overall visage is just something nobody wants any part of. Even the people who really don’t care about looks. Every part of a “parts bin person” is just a little bit off. There is no safe refuge for your eyes to fall upon. It’s as if every fold, wrinkle, and folicle of hair whispers a tiny insult to your eyes. The net effect is… offensive.

That’s a parts bin person. you all can conjure up a memory of some such people. Generally they seem to band together over their common wound. Prity and I were out at the movies last night and there was one such group. The diversity of their traits was astounding, and every time a person walked in that was going to go join the group, you could tell. None of them looked, dressed, or sounded alike. they were all unique, and similar in their uniqueness. Thus are the parts bin people.

-IggDawg