Mall RATS

What does being hot truly mean?? I know that the lovely, smart, well-composed Paris Hilton brought the word to a very general definition, but I am not meaning that. I would like to know when a member of the opposite sex refer to the other by saying, "Wow, they are hot!!" Is that only referring to their outer appearance or can other things about a person make them hot??

For example, can I guy ever walk up to another guy and be like, "whoa man, that girl is a good friend and loyal to the core...she is sooo hott!" Does that ever happen??? I guess this is mainly a question for the male race. I was thinking about this the other day after a trip to the mall on a Saturday afternoon.

After seeing the movie "Catch and Release", which I didn't like by the way. If you haven't seen it, I won't go into detail. See it, and then we can talk. As I was storming past people right and left, something happened to catch my eye. I started coming up on this beautiful girl, dressed to impress. I actually noticed her shoes and thought, "wow, those are cute". As I made my way up the rest of her outfit to her face, I realized she was one of the better looking girls, from the female group and of course standing right next to her was a incredibly good looking guy. I mean, he was REAL cute. I was soo annoyed right away. Of course they would be together, they are only perfect looking. Then I looked a little closer. The girl was stopped and talking to two other girls, which I can only assume were her friends. All I could make out were words like "totally", "whatever", and "no really, you look sooo cute". You can tell right away, these girls were talking about some pretty important issues. Then I looked at the boyfriend. He was carrying like 5 shopping bags; lets just say you can tell by the brand on the bag, they were not his bags. As I closely passed, I looked at his face, and I can safely say I have not seen someone that bored in a really long time. He was rolling his eyes and just plain annoyed. I wanted to yell to him "RUNNNNN". Instead I just walked past and started thinking.

Yeah, I know, I really don't know what was going on with this couple. But I think we all know some couple or situation similar. Basically, it happens with both sexes. Please don’t hear me saying that just b/c you are physical appealing then you have nothing else to offer. I just feel that if we thought a little more about the important characteristics in an opposite sex companion, we might have less “Mall Couples” out there.