Sunday, July 22, 2007

tell me a story

"I'm in love with my sadness." That's a line from the great, scary song "Zero" by Smashing Pumpkins from the incomparable Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I'm really into sadness, too. I was into sexy things for a while, but I've been into sad things for a much longer time.
I would like you all to tell me the saddest story you know. If it's a sexy sad story, that would be even better.
Here's a sad story from my life recently, but not nearly the saddest story you've ever heard. So my job is typing up sales reports called in by tool salesmen. One of the companies they sell for makes coveralls. While I typed I would envision large, manly men with beards wearing coveralls.

This is enjoyable to me because I consider coveralls to be a childish article of clothing.
The sad part of the story is that I discovered that what I was thinking of is actually overalls. What the company sells is coveralls. There is a difference.

I know it doesn't sound sad, but my job is real boring. If you take away one of the bright parts of my day, that's a sad thing.

3 comments:

:::chad::: said...

Here's a sad story about coveralls. I bought shannon a pair of coveralls for Valentine's Day. It's not so much a sad story as it is a statement of sad fact. Now I'm sad. Thanks Bob.

Kristin said...

Bob... I keep checking your blog. Sexy coveralls make good reading 11 or 20 times, but after that, you start to crave something more. Maybe musings on another amusing article of clothing like culottes, I don't know, you're the blogger here.

I take that back. I just googled 'culottes' to make sure I was spelling it right because I'm a little OCD about spelling, okay? And the first site that came up was more than I could have hoped for. Following is a link and an excerpt.

http://www.myculottes.com/
" Culottes are great for everyday! My girls never had to give up climbing trees, riding bikes or horses, they even played street hockey with their brothers. Bowling, volleyball, hikes, gardening, roller blading, and floor cleaning all go great with culottes!"

Girls playing sports with the boys, Bob. Girls not having to ride sidesaddle! It's a culotte revolution.

Nate Housley said...

Wow. Wow. I was going to say the skirlot was my favorite, but then I saw the bloomers.
There's another blog coming, but I think it's going to be political...