Frank and Ernest by Thaves for May 20, 2023

There’s an old guy who hangs out in my mirror now.

I know what you mean, the guy who stairs back at me looks nothing like the me that I have in my mind.

There’s a fat girl in my bathroom.

It shouldn’t be surprising how big he looks like himself.

The opposite is also funny. It’s certainly amazing how much I resemble myself.

My mom keeps turning up in my mirror.

Really? In my mirror I see a dashing, fit, handsome man with long flowing black hair. Wait, that’s a photograph. Never mind.

There is actually quite a bit of you there.

That inevitable “Who’s that in the mirror!” moment.

“Inside every old guy is a young guy wondering what the hell happened.”

James 1:23 &24

There’s revelation in a mirror.

My smart aleck 10th graders and I were trading jokes on appearance. I twigged them about their hair and make up and supposedly stylish but well holed jean and their music. They came back with old [I was 60], bow-legged [stylishly shaped], fat [a tiny shelf for catching leftovers] and bald [a fire break for my hair].

Then I told them that they should take a good look at their oldest relative whom they most resembled. O said that one day, 30-40 years later, they would look in the mirror and see that face. Then, over their shoulders they would see me . . . laughing.

That was 1990. I have been tempted to write a letter to the editor of the local weekly to remind them. But that would be cruel . . . wouldn’t it? : }

I showed a recent photo of myself to a close friend. I told her that this is not what I see when I look in the mirror. She agreed… the face in the photo didn’t look at all like me. I feel better now.

Oh crrrap this light shows every wrinkle, sag and gray! Wait, that’s the sun, never mind.

It’s that hat Frank… just get a new hat…!

My thought each morning

Yeah that old woman in the mirror does not look like me at all,

Who are you? Who, who, who, who?

Dolly Parton entered a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest years ago…and came in second place

Cute…

Are they wearing long kilts or is that mirror on a shelf?