Shaun Hoggan

Tonight while flying back to Salt Lake City I sat next to two women, a mother and daughter, who both were wearing these dark sunglasses which covered half of their head. As I have observed, these large, square shaped, with rounded corner glasses have become more popular over the last year. These are the type of glasses which will be seen on a VH1 program ten years from now where the show will whisk the audience back in time and highlight all of the silly and crazy trademarks of the decade.

It is not all that unusual to see a couple of women sporting a pair of fancy new sunglasses but what stood out to me as strange was the flight started out at 8:50PM when it is obviously dark outside. The flight gave me some time to catch up on a book I have been reading about Native American culture so I did not pay too much attention to the ladies on my right hand side. Upon landing and peeking across the two seats out the window to see the lights of the airport I noticed the two women were both still wearing those fancy glasses. I pondered for a little while why they were still sporting those huge glasses while it was dark out. Were they superstars who did not want to be recognized? Did they just have an eye surgery which prevented them from being exposed to extreme light without damage to their eyes? Were they hiding from some one else who was also on the plane? Were they aliens with strange pupil shapes and they did not want anyone to notice? Anyone’s guess is as good as mine. I still remain perplexed why both of them felt it important to keep their shades on after it was completely dark out. This is one of the mysteries I considered while jogging 3 miles tonight.