Tuesday, August 28, 2007
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
A member of the Stratford town council proposed an ordinance to ban baggy pants that expose underwear.Alvin O'Neal (a rather natty dresser, by the way) would have had police fine offenders up to 250-dollars.
Police, of course, have nothing better to do.
Monday night, the entire town council rejected Mr. O'Neal's proposal.
Do I like the look? Of course not, but the kids who favor it couldn't possibly care less what I think, and apparently they don't put a great deal of stock in what many of their parents think.
Then again, did we? What did our parents think about pegged pants...bell bottoms...madras pants...and polyester leisure suits (especially in lime green or coral)? 
Not much, really. But it was a "fashion" phase many of us went through.
They all passed. And so will baggies.
Really, is it any worse than plumber's butt crack? (Hey, I LIVED with it.)
At least the kids wear boxers, and not briefs.
And someday they'll look at old pictures of themselves and wonder, "What the hell was I thinking?"
Just like we do.
Posted at 12:34 AM by Gerry
8 Comments:
And it was shot down by the ones who decide on such matters, decisively, not that it would alter the way I choose my clothes.....I'm up there in the lower statosphere....with you. And I didn't say the UPPER stratosphere! Years mean little now...happiness everything.
So true.
Gerry,
you are quite interesting.. I read your blogs whenever I get a chance and i'm always so facinated by how smart and funny you are.. Kepp up the great work.
Why thank you!
Gerry, I used to work as a chauffeur in my younger days.On several ocassions I had the pleasure to drive you and your attractive, much younger looking wife Kathy to N.Y.C. an around Hartford. One time it was for your 35th birthday.Has it really been 20 years? I still look exactley the same and I just turned 60. A friend once asked me when do you first realize you were getting old? I answered when you are standing in the super market and a beautifull young woman walks up to you and asks if this fruit is fresh and runs back to another beautifull woman and announces it's OK Mom. You would love to date the daughter but you will settle for the mother.You still have the comfort of picturing your self in a nice retirement home with a beautifull young wife spoon feeding you oatmeal. Your time is coming my friend your time is coming.Respectfully John ( another old man)
And my wife is STILL much younger looking than me. ("Looking" the key word.)
So no one gets the idea that we tool around in limos, we were ahead of the curve on hiring a car on nights we might have more than one (or 10.)
And John, I certainly hope my day is coming.
I too am often fascinated that you are smart.
Yes I are.
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