the_gneech | #ThatMomentWhen Tiffany Tiger Walks Into Your Place (Reply)

So today at Starbucks, Tiffany Tiger was there.

Well, sorta. Tiffany Tiger was modeled on Kathy Ireland, and Kathy Ireland was there.

Well, sorta. A woman who would have been a convincing double for 1980s Kathy Ireland was there.

Seriously, it was uncanny. I had to force myself not to stare at her, partially for all the same reasons anyone might stare at Kathy Ireland, but also because I had to restrain the urge to tell her fatuous things like "You were great in Alien From L.A.!" or "Did you know I wrote a comic about you?" In the end I didn't speak with her at all, which is just as well.

It turns out that !Kathy was a friend of one of the baristas, apparently visiting for the holidays or some such, and so she spent quite a bit of time hanging out in the store chatting.

But confronted with the reality of this supermodel of a doppleganger, I thought about the story I wrote for volume one of No Predation Allowed, of Leonard on the rebound from a failed marriage and being confronted with the sort of woman who literally makes everyone in the room stop and stare, and I can totally see him going up to her and saying, "Hey, toots!" It works.

-The Gneech