Shiny Happy People Holding Hands?

I've been lucky enough to live in the "beautiful" city of Indianapolis for quite sometime now.  It's a comfortable city, with little to nothing to do most of the time.  Everyone has  the same routines, everyone says the same thing and just about everyone is wearing some form of Colt's fan-garb on a daily basis.  It's just another Midwest city with Midwest personality. 

One thing I have always loved about this area is the lack of diversity you see in the city.  Not that there are not multi-ethnic people groups or social classes, because Indianapolis has an enormous amount of international influence and personality.  But with all differences there is still a stylistic similarity.   Everyone looks like a "Hoosier"... except a few.

This leads me to my point.  I was walking around Monument Circle the other evening when low-and-behold I see it.  I forgot they even exist.  I was wondering how it could be possible, but quickly I dismissed that notion and began observing.  Yes, you guessed it; two (count'em two!) orange-tan, fake-n-bake, rub on/spray tanners during Summer!

What causes this phenomena?  Here's the most impressive part, it was a husband and wife.  They both wake up every day thinking, "I'm so glad I married this Oompa-Loompa."  They glowed down the street in the setting sun like two ripe pumpkins waiting for Cinderella's magical transformation.

As  they walked along I couldn't help but think to myself, "How does this happen?  How can people like this or make an effort to do this?"  It created quite a problem for me.  Why do we do these things to ourselves?  I wanted to sit and laugh, but I couldn't.  We are all guilty.  No matter how much we might love something, someone else will look at it with the cool deep disdain of a bankrupt Ebenezer Scrooge.

I know we can't expect to hold back all the time.  Sometimes we see those shiny (literally) happy people walking around and our initial reaction is to laugh but maybe our first reaction should be, observe or ignore or forget?... who am I kidding, when you have orange skin, it's always laugh!