March 15, 2005
girl with the pearl buttons
When I was in elementary school, we had to do square dancing in gym class. On at least one occasion I was paired with the boy who never spoke, seemed kind of sad, had non-colored hair, was super skinny and super tall, and an always runny nose.
He also wore those Western shirts with the pearly-snap buttons.
At the time I thought it was horrible to have to square dance with that guy. Grayish hair, grayish skin...now I wonder what his home was like, if it was as unhappy a story as I've since created for him.
Yet those shirts that used to annoy me, the ones you could buy at the tractor supply place and weren't cool at school, well, I think they're damned cool now.
I have a lovely pink one on now. Although he's not particularly fond of wearing it, I bought it for BrilliantEditor when I was in college. We all went out to see the movie Boogie Nights and came in themed attire. I also bought him wacky blue polyester trousers. (He looked way better than the kid from grammar school.)
I think I want to wear more shirts that snap. It's easier to take them off at night. And I feel like a super-hero. Snap-snap-snap-snap! Pajama Girl to the rescue!
More shirts. That's what I need.
Posted by dotty at March 15, 2005 11:58 PM