IB do you ever get tempted to say on your way out, "You know, everyone is laughing at you..." ???? I have to say it would have come out of me at some point. But I'd say it on my way out and then gravitate towards a group of people so they couldn't come back at me, ha ha ;-)
Seriously, though, they are. They are so crazy they are a caricature. See Beatrice's post. You have to come up with character names for them. Start calling them in your own mind by their character names.
The wet jujubes is the hair, by the way, is BRILLIANT. You could easily pull this off without anyone being the wiser ;-)
M45 Bomb 6/09; EA 6/10; Divorced 1/11 Proud single mom of 7 little feline girls and one little feline boy "Fall down 53 times. Get up 54." -- Zen saying