I’ve been told that a first impression is, oftentimes, a last impression. Perhaps that’s true. If you meet someone and they have, say, a sunny disposition, that person automatically becomes "the happy person". You come to expect at least some degree of jollity from then on and with justifiable reason. The girl who’s bitchy becomes "bitchy girl". The guy with a freakishly clean car becomes "freakishly clean car guy". Bad B.O.? Well, you get the idea. It’s not being shallow. Well….actually, I guess it kind of is…but as with the reason we create stereotypes, at bottom, it makes sense in a cold, Borg-like way. We’re wired to respond like this because, let’s face it, first impressions are often the only ones we get to make.
