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Skinny jeans. Seriously. Can there really be that many young women who don’t own mirrors?

People who stand still on escalators. Do they also stand still on stairs? I suppose not. If they did, they’d all still be there instead of being in my freakin’ way.

The girl in the black stockings who hiked up her skirt to fix her shoe, thereby showing the entire world all she had. Is she really that proud of it? Lady, come on. It’s just like everybody else’s. You’re not impressing anyone.

The sudden apparent tendency of the universe to cut me some freakin’ slack. Where did this come from? Did I achieve some kind of karma credit or something? Why this sudden change of luck?

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  1. The escalator thing boggles the mind. They’re there to help you, not do the work for you.

    Derek Giromini

    Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 4:57 pm


  2. There are a lot of people who experience vertigo on escalators and moving sidewalks, so chill and enjoy the ride (or find the staircase).

    The flip side of skinny jeans is the size 54 jeans on young males with 26 inch waists. How gangsta is it really to be swaggering down the street holding your pants up?

    Darleen

    Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 7:58 pm


  3. RE: escalators —

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrm0swsumo&feature=related

    :-)

    Stephen R

    Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 11:18 pm


  4. Gift Horse and Mouth Jeff. Sometimes we don’t ask about Karma.

    You are due though.

    Magycian

    Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 11:28 pm


  5. I usually stop walking on escalators, just because they’re a good place to stop and rest for a few seconds without having to actually, you know, stop. Then again, since I fathered a couple of children, we mostly take the stroller-friendly elevator.

    Scott Elfstrom

    Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 12:44 am


  6. Karma credit happens a lot these days. Paperwork from your past lives probably just cleared. Gotta love the celestial bureaucracy. Takes forever to get that stuff done.

    Brian

    Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 1:35 am


  7. So you’re sitting on a bike, rolling down a hill. Do you have to pedal, too? Or is that being lazy?

    If the person standing on the escalator is disrupting the flow of traffic, then yes, you have a point. Otherwise, I’d have to disagree.

    Mike

    Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 10:23 am


  8. I enjoy standing still on escalators. Gives me a few seconds of rest.

    In reply to Darleen’s comment about baggy jeans: they DO serve a purpose, those jeans. They serve to amuse the hell out of everyone around them. =P

    Sammi

    Monday, March 24th, 2008, 12:58 pm


  9. Hey, I own a pair of skinny jeans. They aren’t that bad!!!

    oh, and, it’s because you deserve it.

    Peanut

    Monday, March 31st, 2008, 2:16 pm


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