The Ice Cream-Eating Girl

I am walking one of the long underground passageways near People's Square station and I notice several girls eating ice cream as the walk toward the subway entrance. There's a mall food court that connects to the passageway, and there is certainly an ice cream shop there. Even on the coldest Shanghai nights, I always see them eating their ice cream. They are always young girls. I have never seen a boy eating ice cream in this passageway.

Tonight's featured ice-cream eating girl, in her early twenties, is holding her cone in one hand, her cell phone in another. She's not fat, but you can tell that she likes ice cream.

She stops and holds the cell phone in front of her, and she holds her ice cream cone in front of her mouth, like she is about to eat some. She is taking a picture of herself. Before she snaps her ice cream picture, she sticks out her tongue slightly. Curiously, she doesn't smile. Perhaps she is embarrassed to smile like this in public, or this is for her boyfriend and she thinks not smiling would make her look a little sexier. As I pass her, she clicks her cell-phone camera and continues on her way.