it's like "rat race" deja vu

i'm going to assume that everybody reading this has seen the fabulous movie w/ whoopi goldberg and cuba gooding, jr, and the mr. bean guy in it. and the scene where cuba becomes the bus driver for an entire coach bus full of a million women dressed as lucille ball.

well, i had a similar experience yesterday at the missouri repertory theatree. when we first walked into the building, there were a few "red hat ladies" (if you don't know anything about the red hat ladies, either look it up or get off your darn college campus more often!) sitting, playing cards. now i'd seen a lot of books about the red hat ladies and i'd seen a lot of hats for sale in different places, but never had i seen any real, live red hat ladies! exciting!, i think, up to this point. well... i walked into the actual theatre... and those "few" red hat ladies seemed to have increased their numbers-- from a few to ONE HUNDRED TEN of them!!!!!!!! all up and down the right and left-hand sides of the theatre were ladies dressed in the reddest of red hats and purplest of purple outfits and even BOAS! i couldn't help but to have this look on my face that said: whoa. yes, the classic joey-lawrence-on-the-fabulous-tv-show-"blossom"-WHOOOA. they definitely ruled the repertory theatre that afternoon. and then, afterward, getting back on the bus, i watched all of them going back to THEIR bus and couldnt help but think of the bus driver. i wonder if he'd ever seen "rat race" before? i wonder if he was thinking the same thing i was? i wanted to get on the bus and take a picture......... man........ guess you just should've been there... but definitely, long live those red hat ladies.