Strangest Thing Seen Today

At the laundromat: a man, approximately late 30's/early 40's, tall, beer belly, beard, balding, hairy forearms, wearing bluejeans, untucked button shirt and well-worn sneakers -- appearing, in other words, to be your basic white ethnic Brooklynite straight guy -- occupying himself between loads by... knitting (crocheting? I dunno) what looked like a pink lace antimacassar.

You know, I realize that by now, violations of gender stereotypes shouldn't seem strange. And yet, I still just wasn't expecting to see that.