Crushed by the Hearings
By ice rivers
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Yesterday, while watching and listening to the impeachment hearings, I found myself distracted by the faces of people sitting behind the big shots asking questions of the fact witnesses. I was most particularly fascinated by the man and woman sitting behind the Democratic counsel.
The gentleman looked somewhat like a bearded Robert Downey Jr and the woman wearing glasses looked like the grown up version of a girl I had a crush on in first grade. I tried to imagine what those two were thinking while their faces were being seen by millions and millions of people. I found myself almost hypnotized by their attentive faces. They glanced at each other occasionally, and seem to write and exchange notes .
I couldn't help but suspect that they were passing flirtatious notes and trying to keep a straight face about the increasingly erotic messages so that nobody would notice. I tried to ignore them and pay attention to the hearing but they kept attracting my attention, the woman in particular. Every so often, she would look directly and inquisitively at the person being questioned which meant that she was looking straight at millions of Americans which meant she was looking directly at ME
I can recall three specific attention grabs and my reaction to them:
1) The first time I saw her looking at ME, I remembered the first time that my crush looked at me with a similar level of inquisitivity. I wanted to say something but found myself tongue tied and dumbstruck. I wanted to say "i like you" but found that an impossibility.
Not long ago, I told someone else about my first crush. She commented that I had a "great memory". I said "if you can't remember a crush than it probably wasn't a crush at all." I kept my crush secret as I suppose most crushers do so we never really know who has/had a crush on us which is probably a good thing.
2) The second time I saw her looking at ME, I imagined her breaking into an Aerosmith Hot For Teacher moment.....whipping off her glasses, unloosening her hair and turning the whole hearing into a rock and roll bedlam freakout with everybody air guitaring and screaming while she lead the dancing around the chamber.
3) The third time I saw her looking at ME, I imagined her as well as the fact witness Dr. Fiona Hill,simultaneously breaking into the Robert Palmer Addicted to Love Video shimmy and the Robert Downey Jr guy doing the Robert Palmer part singing into a gigantic microphone.
I had to get away from it all. I turned off the teevee and slowly backed away. The Impeachment hearings were driving me crazy and I was falling in love with a stranger who would never know.
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