Liars!
So there I am in Lady Foot Locker. Why? Let's just say because.
Anyway, there I am, you know, waiting, and as I am wont to do, I look into the full length mirror. Gonna check me out. How I'm lookin. What are other people seein. Am I good? Gray? Stumpy? In fashion? Out of it? Smiling or frowning? I look for these things.
So I look, and there I am, but it's not quite right. It's me, but it's definitely not me. No lie, I look like I'm at least 5'8", maybe 5'10". You all know that I am merely 5'5 1/2". Well, you may not have known the specific height, but you know I'm no 5'10". So there I am looking at a taller version of me. But something else is wrong. I'm thin. Like, the proportions are way out of whack. The whack that would normally be found in the Teo proportions are totally devoid of whack in this mirror. Indeed, not only do I look like I'm 5'8" or 5'10", but I'm a thin 5'8" or 5'10".
I ask LB, my compatriot and true patron of Lady Foot Locker, if anything seems odd. At first glance, no, she says. I say, look again. Indeed, there it is, a 5'10", thin version of Teo.
Gotta tell you, if I looked like that, then my choice of shoes is all wrong.
6 Comments:
Yes, Teo, but you've skipped over the truly beautiful part of the whole experience: your epiphany that looking 5'8" or 5'10" really doesn't suit you at all. That you're actually (choke ... sob ... inspired weeping) HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE, vertically speaking.
I'm telling you, it was all very, very poignant.
Hooray for the puppy dog shoes! Boo, Pumas!
Ha! I could suggest that you're 5' 10" on the inside. But I'm with LB. I could also rant about the consumer marketplace doing everything they can to make us buy things, which I already know includes distorted mirrors because they're in every dressing room everywhere.
Teo, my friend I have the shoes for you. I have asked Mrs. Pinata to add these to my birthday list.
Sweetness!
Yes, yes! Indeed, those ARE the shoes for you! Or, rather, the shoos for yoo.
'Roos! Walter! Sweetness!
You are hittin' me where I live, my man.
I thought you might like those.
And I did actually ask Mrs. Pinata to consider those as a birthday gift for me. If you were an early teen boy in 1985, you understand why those are so cool. Sweetness, baby, sweetness.
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