What next..tutu's??
Day 7....another weirdo
I thought I might struggle to get a strange person today. Something just told me that all would be normal for a change. Mmm..nope...wrong.
In the building I work in, lunch rush is at approx 12.30pm. You know it's here because the lifts suddenly take five minutes to come and are annoyingly sardined with suits. Naturally, this phenominon of "busy" flows out into the foyer for a few minutes.
So I'm in the foyer, along with about fifty others. And this girl and guy walk in through the front doors, and just wait a minute or so for someone. The girl sees who she's waiting for, waks over to him, gives him a hug and a piece of paper. He then heads back to the lifts. The girl and the guy she arrived with leave.
"So what", you say. "Big Deal."
Well. I have no issue with the guy she arrived with. He was in business attire and just waked in with her and then out again. Youngish kid he was.
She, on the other hand, looked like a reject from "Dancing with the Stars."
She had on what I can only descibe as a Ballroom Dancing outfit. It was electric blue, full of sequins. The "skirt" might as well have just been a belt and the top was just a bra really. The shoes were camel high heels with straps that wound half way up her leg.
Hmm.
At first, I thought that maybe she was the booked entertainment for a lunch meeting. You know, these days businesses are all trying to be wacky and original and go that little bit further in their presentations....cue chick in blue outfit.
So she didn't faze me at first. Much. But then to just give a guy a note and leave?? If she wasn't working in my building, if she was just gping for a walk, doing an errand...why not wear a bloody jacket? Is this just exhibitionism taken to a whole new level?
Well, as usual, I have come up with my own theory. You see, someone recently said to me that if you wak through Target, you will see what the masses will be wearing for the season. The average mainstream person. Target is the barometer for bad fashion. Actually I should just say fashion, because that word usually precludes it's propensity to be "bad."
Anyway...I believe the head buyer of Target recently went to a taping of "Dancing with the Stars." Then he/she went on a massive all night bender the day before the Spring ladies-wear ordering occurred...and you can guess where I'm going with this.
It's the only thing that makes sense.....
Lundi Laneway.
I happened to stumble over today's laneway yesterday whilst just killing time. Yes, i wonder through alleys for fun. Once again, it is an arts project but there was no explanation to clue me into what the artist was thinking. In case it's too hard to distinguish in the pics, this alley has a back wall which is piled with public phones, two by two, out of reach and reaching for the sky. Maybe it's just a comment on how unhelpful Melbourne's public phone system is.
In any case...it's WEIRD. Enjoy.
I thought I might struggle to get a strange person today. Something just told me that all would be normal for a change. Mmm..nope...wrong.
In the building I work in, lunch rush is at approx 12.30pm. You know it's here because the lifts suddenly take five minutes to come and are annoyingly sardined with suits. Naturally, this phenominon of "busy" flows out into the foyer for a few minutes.
So I'm in the foyer, along with about fifty others. And this girl and guy walk in through the front doors, and just wait a minute or so for someone. The girl sees who she's waiting for, waks over to him, gives him a hug and a piece of paper. He then heads back to the lifts. The girl and the guy she arrived with leave.
"So what", you say. "Big Deal."
Well. I have no issue with the guy she arrived with. He was in business attire and just waked in with her and then out again. Youngish kid he was.
She, on the other hand, looked like a reject from "Dancing with the Stars."
She had on what I can only descibe as a Ballroom Dancing outfit. It was electric blue, full of sequins. The "skirt" might as well have just been a belt and the top was just a bra really. The shoes were camel high heels with straps that wound half way up her leg.
Hmm.
At first, I thought that maybe she was the booked entertainment for a lunch meeting. You know, these days businesses are all trying to be wacky and original and go that little bit further in their presentations....cue chick in blue outfit.
So she didn't faze me at first. Much. But then to just give a guy a note and leave?? If she wasn't working in my building, if she was just gping for a walk, doing an errand...why not wear a bloody jacket? Is this just exhibitionism taken to a whole new level?
Well, as usual, I have come up with my own theory. You see, someone recently said to me that if you wak through Target, you will see what the masses will be wearing for the season. The average mainstream person. Target is the barometer for bad fashion. Actually I should just say fashion, because that word usually precludes it's propensity to be "bad."
Anyway...I believe the head buyer of Target recently went to a taping of "Dancing with the Stars." Then he/she went on a massive all night bender the day before the Spring ladies-wear ordering occurred...and you can guess where I'm going with this.
It's the only thing that makes sense.....
Lundi Laneway.
I happened to stumble over today's laneway yesterday whilst just killing time. Yes, i wonder through alleys for fun. Once again, it is an arts project but there was no explanation to clue me into what the artist was thinking. In case it's too hard to distinguish in the pics, this alley has a back wall which is piled with public phones, two by two, out of reach and reaching for the sky. Maybe it's just a comment on how unhelpful Melbourne's public phone system is.
In any case...it's WEIRD. Enjoy.
Love the name of the lane...
