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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (3138)	1/16/2001 6:46:09 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

Something funny finally happened to me. Remember how I said all the amusing anecdotal stuff only happens to you? Well finally something happened to me. It's not as good as your self immolation thing, but I think it is funny. I went to aerobics a bit early. And the health club had all this stuff out in the lobby...on sale. Things with pink x's were 25% off, things with green x's were 50% off, and things with red x's were 75% off. They should have used another color scheme because the pink and red were too close to the same color- but that is not the funny part. Anyway, I looked through the T-shirts and Tennis skirts and the bin of tennis panties- and then, I touched the softest, the most wonderful, socks in the world. They are called Thorlo aerobic socks. They are like egyptian cotton- the good kind. They are think and padded- and they are really long- they go up to your knees, so you can scrunch them down to keep your ankles warm. Anyway they were 75% off- and while 11.00 would be too much for me to pay for aerobic socks (or at least I think it would be, I'm glad I didn't have to find out) I was more than happy to buy 4 pair for 11.00. My only concern was- would they fit? I showed my shoe, with my foot in it, to the lady behind the counter who had a pair of the magic socks herself. She thought they would fit me. But wasn't sure. Could I try them on? No. So I bought them and decided I would just return the other 3 pair if the one I tried on did not fit. I was wearing my very old, very scratchy slouch socks- that were so old they presented the same effect as if I had cut the arms off of a large sweatshirt and wound them around my ankles. I almost threw them away before I even tried on the Thorlos - but then it occurred to me, if the thorlos didn't fit I would have to do my aerobics sockless- yuck. So I tried them on- it was just me and this other woman in the corridor outside the aerobics studio, standing about 5 feet away from me- waiting for the 6:00 aerobic class. When I tried on my thorlos they FIT! And they were soft and puffy and wonderful- so I let out a squeal- not really loud. You know. Just a happy squeal. And this woman looked at me really strangely- so I said "I have new socks and they fit". And then she looked at me even MORE strangely which made me want to put her at ease so I said "I don't get out much"- which was supposed to help her understand why I was excited about socks, but which I actually now think made her think that most of the time I am confined in some lunatic asylum where they keep socks away from me so I do not injure myself. She then wandered away, while keeping an eye on me. I tried to look harmless.