Loudmouth on the bus
April 2, 2009 5 Comments
Somebody save me. I’m on a bus, sitting a few seats away from a chubby, sloppy looking guy with a throaty, gabby voice that carries. Not only that, but he is saying the stupidest things ever. He is going on to the people sitting behind him about how Obama looks unprofessional when he does not wear a suit jacket. “I don’t want to see a leader with his sleeves rolled up and his feet on the table talking about the economic crisis.” I like to think the opinions of people in a democracy matter, that we’re all equal if we vote, that we should be free to express ourselves, etc., etc., but this guy is one for whom muzzles were invented. If people were forced to have a little logic behind their arguments (e.g. if someone is working without a jacket and rolled up shirtsleeves, that might actually mean he is working pretty hard) and some historical perspective (Bush has worked without a jacket as well), maybe I would not have to be subjected, when I’m trying to do work, to a loudmouth whose main concern about our president is whether he wears a tie.
limbaugh rides the bus??
suits and ties are terrible for productivity; they are an anachronism, for ornamental purposes only; if you want to accomplish something concrete, the first thing you’ll want to do is remove the piece of cloth tied around your neck, cutting off your oxygen
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agreed about suits.
i believe the original purpose of ties was to prevent food and drink from spilling on the much more expensive (than the ties) linen shirts of early businessmen.