Several weeks ago, one of the guys I chat with while working out in the morning saw my pair of socks and couldn’t help himself. “Last in the rotation, eh?,” he said to me.
I laughed, knowing exactly what he meant: every other pair of socks must have been in the laundry for me to pull out the gaudy pair I was wearing. While that wasn’t actually the case, there was merit in his point.
One thing I do regularly is wear my clothes. Seems simple. When saying, “I wear my clothes,” I mean “all” of them. If I don’t wear a shirt, pair of pants, shoes, jacket, whatever, for an extended period of time, I put that item into the recycling bin for our local reuse store, Salvation Army or Goodwill. Better off that someone else gets to wear it if
The socks I wore that morning had a Christmas theme. Santa playing golf or something like that. So, given it was August, my buddy at the fitness facility knew something was up. Not Christmas, so these socks shouldn’t be in the rotation. Hence his comment, “Last in the rotation, eh?”
His phrase made me laugh. It implies what you’re wearing is outrageous or outdated, something like that. So bad that someone will comment.
Sometimes I wonder if I wear things like those socks to see if they will elicit a comment. See whether people are paying attention. That might have been the case here, I don’t remember.
When flying, I wear a shirt to see how people will react in the airport. It has a set of golf clubs on it with the phrase, “Life is filled with difficult choices.” I love it. It’s amusing and says something about life and decision-making. I wear that shirt because I want to see if people will read and react. Start a conversation.
Engaging others is part of T-shirt slogans. We wear that kind of stuff to see what others have to say. While my socks weren’t on that morning to serve this function, they must have been out-of-place by enough to ring my buddy’s buzzer.
When he explained the “rotation” phrase to me (where it originated), it made even more sense to me. His “rotation” story came from a friend.
His friend was fond of wearing an electric orange shirt. Considering the color, it stood out. But, it sounds like from my friend’s description that the orange was a bit over the top. A color no one would wear in public. You’d only wear it if it was last in the rotation.
The phrase is good for a chuckle, mildly mocking while recognizing the individual’s crazy fashion style. Which reminds me of another classic, “Hey, did you get dressed the dark?” That’s another story.
Seriously, I rotate my clothes. As they emerge from the closet or dresser drawer, it’s the items that have been hanging around the longest that I wear next. This leads to Christmas socks in August.
Yeah, sometimes I shake it up just to shake it up. Otherwise, I actually attempt to match up the colors of my shirts with my shorts and socks. That was likely the case that morning at the workout facility. Regardless of the rationale, it sparked some laughs and there’s a lot to be said for that.
I laughed, knowing exactly what he meant: every other pair of socks must have been in the laundry for me to pull out the gaudy pair I was wearing. While that wasn’t actually the case, there was merit in his point.
One thing I do regularly is wear my clothes. Seems simple. When saying, “I wear my clothes,” I mean “all” of them. If I don’t wear a shirt, pair of pants, shoes, jacket, whatever, for an extended period of time, I put that item into the recycling bin for our local reuse store, Salvation Army or Goodwill. Better off that someone else gets to wear it if
The socks I wore that morning had a Christmas theme. Santa playing golf or something like that. So, given it was August, my buddy at the fitness facility knew something was up. Not Christmas, so these socks shouldn’t be in the rotation. Hence his comment, “Last in the rotation, eh?”
His phrase made me laugh. It implies what you’re wearing is outrageous or outdated, something like that. So bad that someone will comment.
Sometimes I wonder if I wear things like those socks to see if they will elicit a comment. See whether people are paying attention. That might have been the case here, I don’t remember.
When flying, I wear a shirt to see how people will react in the airport. It has a set of golf clubs on it with the phrase, “Life is filled with difficult choices.” I love it. It’s amusing and says something about life and decision-making. I wear that shirt because I want to see if people will read and react. Start a conversation.
Engaging others is part of T-shirt slogans. We wear that kind of stuff to see what others have to say. While my socks weren’t on that morning to serve this function, they must have been out-of-place by enough to ring my buddy’s buzzer.
When he explained the “rotation” phrase to me (where it originated), it made even more sense to me. His “rotation” story came from a friend.
His friend was fond of wearing an electric orange shirt. Considering the color, it stood out. But, it sounds like from my friend’s description that the orange was a bit over the top. A color no one would wear in public. You’d only wear it if it was last in the rotation.
The phrase is good for a chuckle, mildly mocking while recognizing the individual’s crazy fashion style. Which reminds me of another classic, “Hey, did you get dressed the dark?” That’s another story.
Seriously, I rotate my clothes. As they emerge from the closet or dresser drawer, it’s the items that have been hanging around the longest that I wear next. This leads to Christmas socks in August.
Yeah, sometimes I shake it up just to shake it up. Otherwise, I actually attempt to match up the colors of my shirts with my shorts and socks. That was likely the case that morning at the workout facility. Regardless of the rationale, it sparked some laughs and there’s a lot to be said for that.
