You look smart!Posted on 2003/05/20 16:17:45 (May 2003) by rob. Why are people so surprised?
I am wearing a shirt and tie today. I had a consultancy meeting in Euston with Bellwether and the Railway Safety and Standards Board. It seems that as soon as I meet anyone coming back from this meeting, they comment, "You look smart!" in a suprised tone. It's as if I crawl out of the gutter or from under a rock each morning, through a bush and then into a threshing machine.
Do I really look that much of a shit-heap on a standard basis? No, I think not. Some of my T-Shirts do have holes in them, but I wear them rarely now (to preserve them). I quite often wear a shirt and my boots, although metally, are normally shined. My hair is not scraggy or two tone and I am mostly clean shaven. So, why the surprise?
Perhaps it is because of the time spent at University? Oh right, so being a student instantly makes you into some sort of heaving bag of unwashed puss, eh? A festering toxic postule.
I would like to remind those people out there who are agast to see me in a tie that I wear an RAF uniform twice a week and one weekend in three and for that, I have to be very smartly turned out. I am no stranger to ties, ironing razor-sharp creases in shirts and trousers (creases that are supposed to be there) and have been doing so since I was 13. How many 13 years old can tie a Windsor knot? Was I not smartly dressed at my graduation? Although, I think many of my friends had a heart failure to actually see me uniform.
So, next time you see me wearing a tie and you feel a smart arsed comment coming on, be warned as the rebutal is likely to be cutting, scathing and thoroughly witty.
Expect "Sod off, you nonce."
Comment 1
Hear hear!
Posted by tom at 2003/05/20 16:29:03.
Comment 2
At least part of the irritation here is that annoying phenomenon people have of telling you something you clearly alerady know. Like "You've had your hair cut", "You've got a tan", "You're soaking wet", "You've broken your arm", "Your cat is on fire", and so on.
I'm sure there's an archaic old book of Scottish law or something that states it is perfectly legal to disembowel people for this sort of behaviour.
Posted by John at 2003/05/20 16:55:22.
Comment 3
You look great in a shirt and tie! I like it a lot.
Posted by little panda at 2003/05/20 20:48:11.
Comment 4
Little Panda? Another bloody alias or someone new?
Posted by Rob Lang at 2003/05/20 23:56:30.
Comment 5
It's Chie - I did ask her why she couldn't just put her own name but she seems to like little panda. I suppose it is kind of cute, and seems oddly fitting now I think about it.
Posted by John at 2003/05/21 20:12:50.
Comment 6
I don't think we should be discussing your lady's sexual appetite here!
Arigato gozaimasu, Chie-san!(thanks very much, Chie!)
Posted by Rob Lang at 2003/05/22 24:20:36.
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