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Business Up Front
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October 14, 2004
There’s something rebellious about wearing halloween pumpkins on your boxer shorts when you work at Big Firm. Just knowing that—under the pressed-and-starched—there is a smiling, twinkling little face can make the most boring of meetings or the most powerful of upbraidings just a little ridiculous.
I mean, can you imagine what Big Partner at Big Firm would do if he knew while critiquing your extraordinarily bad work, you were wearing HappyPants™? Or if they were handing you an award for a job really well done, and you simply told everyone that you had turtles in race cars on your pants?
And nothing more?
Of course, sometimes, you have to be a bit more serious; you go for the plaid, or even solid colored boxers. For days like that, it helps to have a girlfriend like S, who’ll kindly give you a pair of snazzy dress socks.
That have a pink heel and a pink toe! It’s like the mullet of footwear—business up top, but a party down below.
But you can be having a crap day, sitting in a stuffy meeting, and if you just take a moment to think about your socks, all the troubles melt away. So as things go downhill, you can stop, take a breath, and take a mental gander at your twinkling, pink piggies. And you’re left with a little smile.
Just like the Jack-o-Lanterns.
This was Rebellion , and it appeared on October 14, 2004 7:57 PM.
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It’s just as fun if you wear no underwear at all!
Posted by: Torrie at October 17, 2004 11:47 PM
I’ll have to try it.
Posted by: New Blue Shoe at October 18, 2004 12:02 AM
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