Some things I don’t understand and that bothers me. At present I am perplexed by Shoe Laces.
I see people all the time walking around with their Shoe Laces Untied. I asked the first 192 of these walkers why were their Shoe Laces Untied and every single one of them looked at me like I was stupid and gave me the same answer, “Because It’s Cool”.
OK, I understand Cool (or is the Kool?) but it’s a little fuzzy in my mind because I stopped being Cool in 1972. Every time I see one of these Cool Shoe Laces Untied Walking People I think of the danger they are in. My Aunt Sarah told me to tie my shoelaces in 1949 and I never forgot her words of warning to me, “You are gonna trip and fall”.
Most of the world never had the good fortune of meeting my Aunt Sarah and, if she were still with us, she would be kept real busy warning people who don’t need to be warned and are not really in danger because the Shoe Makers in the Good Ole USofA today are making sneakers that have decorative cool shoelaces that cannot be tied.
This whole bit of lace confusion hit me this morning because I was looking through WSJ. Magazine at an article about Roger Federer. On page 86 is a fashionable picture of him sitting on a chair. I know it is fashionable because WSJ. Magazine told me...
- His Gucci Jacket costs $1,360.
- His Nike Track Pants costs $85.
- His Nike Sneakers costs $90.
Allow me to digress here. I don’t want you to think that I made a typing mistake twice in the above paragraph when I pecked out “WSJ.”. The period after “WSJ” is meant to be there because, for some unknown reason, the Wall Street Journal (that’s where the “WSJ” comes from) wants it to be there.
Now that I have digressed my mind has started to wander. I just wandered into the future and I saw where there will come a time where Shoe Laces will be Invisible. The question I am asking myself is, once shoe laces become invisible and the laces are left untied but unseen...
Will the Cool Shoe Laces Untied Walking People still be Cool?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: I bet, if Roger had known his Sneakers and Pants were so cheap, he would have refused to sit for WSJ. Magazine.
