It’s winter around 2006. It’s a cold Tuesday morning and I’m sick in bed with the flu.

I’m scrolling aimlessly through the TV channels and I come across the Tyra Banks show.

There is a very attractive woman in the studio. She is being dressed to look like a witch from hell. Ugly wig and clothes that make her body look like a washing bag with legs.

They put her on the street and video her from some distance.

She goes up to strangers and asks them for parking meter money. Only one in about 15 people want to help her. Many of them skirt around her as though she has the plague.

They then put her back on the same street looking really fabulous, great legs in a miniskirt, beautiful face, body and hairdo.

Again she’s asking for parking meter money.

14 out of 15 people help her, eagerly, happily. One guy even goes into a store to get change so he can give her some money.

The difference is spellbinding. [Read more…]