I usually wear a pair of Oakley OOs with brown oval lenses. Or I might don a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers when I’m feeling retro. Or Ray-Ban Aviators or surplus HGU-4s when I get my hair cut very short.
But yesterday I dug out a pair of shades that look kind of like the Oakleys, but which I had bought from Dapy/Spencer’s Gifts a while back. They have holographic eyeballs in the lenses. I think they brought some amusement to people with whom I share the planet. “Look at his glasses!” said a complete stranger to her friends. I got lots of smiles, too. I was on my way out the door, when I decided to pop into a Marketing Director’s office to ask him about something. He is the most dapper man I’ve met. He’s always meticulously dressed and sports a gold Rolex on a President band. Nice guy. He saw my shades and laughed his head off. After our meeting I bid him a good weekend and put my shades back on. He laughed again and shook his head.
Sure, it’s silly to wear these glasses. Sure, they are not as good as real shades. Sure, some people may have thought I’m some sort of psycho, or really, really unhip. But it’s good to make people smile and laugh now and again.
I have a friend who once wore cow patterned trousers to college. He says it was a great decision. He got to meet lots of new people, as they were walking up to him and complimenting his trousers.
This is a similiar spectacle story to the original post.
I used to work in aircraft maintenance. One of my colleagues had some trick spectacles that had lenses that looked like bottle bottoms (about 3/8 “ thick) which magnified his eyes about threefold. When we got wind that someone from the Quality Dept. or a CAA inspector ( similar to FAA ) was coming to the aircraft, he would put his spectacles on and pretend to be inspecting the aircraft. We would position ourselves to make sure we could see their faces when they spotted him doing his inspection. My words can’t describe how hilarious it was to see them watching him fumbling his way around the aircraft. Of course British reserve would prevent them saying anything to him directly, but the manager would be quizzed on the abilities of his fitness to certify the serviceability of the aircraft
I have a co-worker who owns a REALLY LOUD Hawaiian-style shirt. The first time I saw it, I burst out laughing so hard I hung up on someone (bad receptionist :smack: ).
He has gotten so many uncontrolled responses to this shirt that he now wears it as a therapeutic device. You had a bad Wednesday, he’ll wear it Thursday to make you laugh.
The thing is, he’s a low-key kinda guy. Black, grey or blue are his colours of choice, so as to go unnoticed. He also doesn’t necessarily want to go on record as a thoughtful guy, either. But there it is.
