Over the past week or so I have been the recipient of this, yet in a way that has left me completely devoid of a witty comeback... Not because I didn't have one or two saved up behind my teeth, more that the people in question didn't deserve the venom. For, O fearless reader, they were completely innocent.
How can this be I hear you ask in hushed tones, surely at best "Why do you wear that?" is some what pointed and at worst down right confrontational. Normally I would agree but these people had moved past the question, onto a conclusion and were going from there.
More and more I'm being asked, "Do you work here?" even worse, some immediately launching into a conversation regarding the location of an item they wish to purchase, or their dissatisfaction with a product they have already purchased. Whilst my ego sees the silver side of this, I'm obviously looking authoritative, go me. And the darker aspects of my nature delight in imagining the damage I could do, to the reputation of the business I happen to be in. Intellectually, I'm left wondering how sad it is, that when people decide to look a little dappa, there is a swath of the population that immediately assume that they must be on company time.
At some point we were sold the idea that "wear what you want" was synonymous with dress badly, in the most unflattering bit of over saturated toweling possible. Worse than that: track suits, when was the last time most of the people who wear them actually went running? It's Lunacy.
