Airport fashion

People wear all sorts of things when they are traveling, and sometimes, you can tell a great deal about the person's destination by their choice of clothing. If the traveler is twenty-something and wearing pajama pants and a t-shirt, you can assume that she isn't going straight to an interview when she gets off the plane. If the traveler is dressed in a business suit, you might guess that he's got a meeting soon after the plane lands. You get the point.

Yesterday in the airport, I saw an older gentleman (65 to 70ish) wearing a navy blue blazer over a bluish-grey t-shirt, navy blue shorts, white Nike ankle socks, and black loafers. My question to you, loyal readers, is: for what type of event was this man dressed? Tell me his story, won't you?

(P.S. He was in first class, too.)

It's like being really, really, really dead.

I have a dear friend who recently came to visit. She mentioned to me that I should never have left the teaching profession. I looked at her skeptically (or like she was crazy... whatever), and she shared this little jewel of a story with me:

Her father is a top news anchor in our hometown, and he recently had to carefully explain to a co-anchor that a person could not, in fact, be fatally killed.

This person has a job. A paying one. In the real world. A job that affects the lives of others.

If you need me, I'll be over here jamming pieces of bamboo underneath my fingernails.