What we show other people; what does it say about us? What we notice, does that say something, too?

Spotted at Fashion Island, Newport Beach, CA, a high-end shopping center:
1. eight-year old cheerleading troupe in full regalia, outfits likely $300 a piece, made up with thick eyeliner and teased hair like junior beauty queens, drinking Haagen Daz milkshakes, ignoring their mothers
2. a stream of dogs from dachshunds to labs dressed up to have their Christmas portraits taken in the back room of Muttropolis, a gourmet pet boutique
3. no fewer than 5 collagen lip enhancements (within 5 minutes) of sitting down to lunch at PF Changs
4. sweaters for votive candles, to make them sexier
5. a one-karat chocolate diamond; a ten-karat emerald, an older man with hair growing out of his ears and a younger woman with breast implants (Natrelle, probably) window shopping
6. a middle-aged man with greyed temples in Bermuda shorts and loafers with no socks carrying shopping bags from Forever 21 behind his teenage daughter and her friend who ignored him
7. an old couple holding wrinkled, liver-spotted hands by the coy pond