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In the Race

Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...

Pull 'Em Up

By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 11:51 AM



Sometimes I drive out towards 27th Street and go past a home that has a lawn that gets mowed by a teenager.  There have been times I wished I had my camera with me because I swear I would stop and take the guy's picture and put it up here for you to see.  He actually mows the lawn with his pants down below his rear end...his entire butt hanging out, with boxers showing.  I can't understand how he is doing it.  Pushing the lawn mower up and down the slight hill when he can barely walk.  I wonder if it is his way of getting back at his parents for making him mow the lawn...saying "I'll show you, if you're going to make me mow the lawn, I'm going to do it looking like this"...and he literally makes an ass of himself (in my opinion anyway).

Well, this fashion trend...pants hanging below the butt...I don't understand it, but I'm not meant to understand everything.

Many cities across the country are passing ordinances against wearing pants that way...and I'm not sure how they are getting those laws passed, but they are.  New York, Flint, and Chicago are among them.




MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP
Flint Police Chief David Dicks pats down a man who was stopped
Monday in Flint for his sagging pants.

The man was warned and released.
Dicks said his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that
expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms
 




It's The Law:  No sagging pants in Chicago



Are your Jeans Sagging?  Go Directly To Jail





Comments

J. Strupp   

Would you be shocked if I told you that this "fashion" statement derives from wearing prison uniforms?  

I didn't think so.  Nice hey?

July 22, 2008 12:51 PM

Janet Evans   

No, Josh...not surprised by that.  Hmm...Can't think of any reason why some guys would want their butts shown off while in prison.  But that's another story.  

At any rate, at least you know you can beat someone wearing their pants that way in a foot race.  

July 22, 2008 4:57 PM

J. Strupp   

Prisoners weren't given belts because they were a popular method of commiting suicide so prison uniforms tended to sag and well.......now it's "fashion".  

July 22, 2008 10:14 PM

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