Christmas Shopping

So I was out today, doing my last minute shopping at Southdale Mall. It was jammed with people. When I saw a young, white woman plainly dressed with a head covering on, I thought to myself, “How ironic that an Amish (or Hutterite or similar old order Anabaptist) would be here today. Strange that they shun most modern conveniences and yet shop on one of the busiest days of the year. I thought they didn’t celebrate Christmas and Easter. Don’t they just give each other hand-crafted furniture?”

As my head is wont to do, it was spinning over these thoughts in about half the time it took you to read them, because just seconds later I saw a man with a head covering, and I was jolted out of one socio-theological quandary into another:

“Why the hell would that dude wear such a cheap toupee?”

From there I began to wonder how much difference there really is between these two head coverings, anyway…

Merry Christmas.