also gross
a trip to walgreen's is always just a slice of life for me.
inside the drugstore today i experienced and witnessed tiny little old ladies having accidental reunions, tiny little old ladies running the checkout lines, carabiner flashlights, an intense internal debate on which #2 pencils to buy for my upcoming exam (settled on the mirado black warriors; hopefullly i won't regret that because they're a little too smooth for filling in circles), and teenage boys looking down each aisle for something to do (at walgreen's?).
all that aside, this time it was the parking lot that held today's noteworthy item: a pair of sweatpants with a college name emblazoned across the butt.
i get riled up about this. how can women complain about being objectified by men when they wear pants like these? it's ridiculous for a girl to walk around in, say, juicy brand sweatpants, and expect guys not to stare at her caboose, read the word, and think, "juicy."
bah, i said to myself. then the real kicker.
the wearer of these sweatpants was some white-haired dude. looked to be in his late fifties.
now THAT just ain't right.
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I'm thinking the women who complain about being objectified and the women who wear t-shirts that say things like "skank" right across their chest might be different groups of women, but I could be wrong about that.
The fact that you went off about this and it turns out to be some old guy wearing the pants cracks me up. Did they give you cause to objectify him?
I never had that much fun at Walgreen's, myself.
10/31/2005 12:12:00 PM
oh, it isn't fun prima facie. it's all in how you look at it. the things you see can be very depressing, or bizarre, or, as it is for me, funny.
for some reason walgreen's is a venue where all of life's little quirky situations are exaggerated, and i can't help but look around as though through a documentary camera lens. maybe it's because i work in health care, and seeing all the bogus and wacko health treatments and ridiculous products amuses me. maybe it's the abundance of variety of the products (do you know how many kinds of lip balm they have to choose from?) in pretty colors all in a row. or maybe it's because i only go when i need something, or when i'm sick or bored or depressed.
or... it could be the candy section. caaaaaaaannnnnnnndyyyyyyy! just kidding.
the old dude? i could not objectify him. my eyes were too violated (and i myself was too shocked and appalled when i realized i had just been forced to notice an old guy's butt) for me to be able to see straight for a couple seconds. instead i tried to label him. he's either the clueless fuddy-duddy parent of a college student, homosexual, or so inobservant he didn't realize he put on his daughter's sweatpants that day.
10/31/2005 05:04:00 PM
or maybe, just maybe he had a big blonde wig and some fake boobs in his car and it was all part of his halloween costume.
10/31/2005 05:13:00 PM
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