Voyeur (Piazza San Pietro)
She is waiting in line to enter St. Peter’s Basilica.
I can see that she is growing impatient and probably asking herself why she didn’t
arrive earlier to beat the long line. It was her husband that delayed their
arrival to the Piazza as it looks like he jumped out of bed and put whatever on.
She took her time in the morning to put on her mascara, moisturize her face, and
foundation. He, on the other hand, is wearing a shirt that says “ROMA” and a
yellow baseball cap with the Nautica symbol on it.
She is passing the time by taking selfies of them
with a selfie stick. He does not look too pleased with the number of photos
that she is taking, but just goes with it just to make up for his lateness.
They are a young couple that have been married
for a relatively short time. The wife has short, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a
snub nose with red Fendi glasses on. She has a cardigan on to hide her
shoulders and exposed stomach from the fashion police that she is about to interact
with. From closer inspection of her stomach, I can see that she has stretch
marks. She must’ve had a child not too long ago or loss a significant amount of
weight.
The husband is losing his hair and just has a patch
of hair on the back of his head. He works a stressful job and is just trying to
relax on this vacation while his wife wants to be out and about. He seems to
just be nervous about the standing in this line. He keeps stroking his thick, black
beard and pulling out hairs.
Thirty minutes into my observation of them…
The
man has lost 15 hair follicles a minute from his pulling.They have made their way past
the metal detectors and the fashion police. The woman looks relieved and the man
looks more nervous than ever. They move up the stairs and I lose sight of them
behind the pillars.
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