The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Maybe you’re like me, a little oblivious to the latest trends in fashion.  My last haircut, for instance, was 2019 B.C., Before Covid, but lately I’ve gotten wind of social media sites that allow you — and I use that word hesitantly — allow you to adjust and enhance your profile image.  You want fuller lips, less chin, more nose, wider eyes, they got a program that can do that … and much much more.  You think folks wouldn’t want a virtual facelift, botox without the neurotoxins, breast enhancements or a digital youth serum, hoo boy, stand over here by me, the Nerd Geezer Club.

In the universe of selfies and eternal Facebook updates, what else would you expect?  The computer mirror reflects back our enhanced image, not quite real but then, why do we use make-up, eyeliner, lipstick, mascara and hair coloring?  We’re obsessed with our self-image and now … we can alter that image through the magic of digital plastic surgery.  And if you like that ‘look’, that new and improved you, well, there are real plastic surgeons waiting  to assist you with implants, injections, fat burning, lipo-suction and scalpels.  Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it can be yours for free on the internet or at a price in the doctor’s office.

Sure, I can be disdainful, after all, no touch up or even major surgery is going to help me at this late stage.  Too late for this old fart.  Although … I could use a haircut, maybe a little off the side and a foot off the back, color up those gray hairs, move my ears back a bit, make my eyes look wise — and while we’re at it, how about a hat that wasn’t half beat up?  Okay, how about just the hat.

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