I am by no means a fashion expert, nor would I want to be, but I am always surprised at what people will wear in public. I am not talking about the days where people are in a big hurry (especially around exam time) and they just throw on some sweatpants or something. I am talking about outfits that are more frequent, and find their way into a persons regular ensemble. For example, the guy I see who wears dress shirts everyday. This in itself is not abnormal, except he is always wearing extremely tight spandex “pants”. It thought he might have an excuse if he rode his bike to school. He takes the bus. Yuck. The other day I was near the SFU gym. I saw this girl wearing a pair of shorts that had a big stop sign on the back, and a yield sign on the front. I will leave any potential misinterpretation up to you. Of course, all of these people are not bad. I recently saw a girl that was about 16 or 17 helping some older man who was having obvious problems crossing the street. Nice to see, and I will choose to ignore the fact that she was wearing a shirt that read “Fuck You!” on the back of it.
Sigh.
Of course, the transgressions are not limited to visual assaults. Frequently I am violated nasally as well. When you were a kid were you ever exposed to those scratch and sniff stickers? Some of them didn’t smell too good, likely as their payload of smell was altered by either a chemical reaction or just age. I don’t know what the hell it is, but there is this perfume out there that I have been noticing more and more often. It smells just like those stenchy (neologism) stickers of yore. What the hell are you thinking?