Well, quite clearly the top tip of the day was how to best shine your shoes. Not, at first thought, a monumentous story, but it was in fact the manner in which the chap did it that made me notice.
This clever bloke actually stopped before the up escalator at the tube station, rubbed some polish on his shoes and then spent the entire upward journey with either one of them rubbing against the brushes on the side of the escalator.
My word were his shoes shiny at the top - he could have been in the army with such a sheen.
It's days like today that make you glad to be alive.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
More things to wind me up...
People with unkempt hair....it doesn't take a minute to look in the mirror before you leave home, although if you did you might also notice the cheap suit from the pound shop too.
People who appear to have either gone into the barbers and said 'grade two all over please' or have bought a pair of cheap clippers and done it themselves. Have they never heard of layering or indeed 'style'?
Mr Competitive (still, after all of this time!) for he now stands at 'his place' on the platform even when its pouring with rain just so he gets on the train first.
Ticket barriers at tube stations that aren't very good at their job.......e.g. They don't accept tickets, which rather defeats the object of their existence (unless they are in the employment of the devil with a sole purpose of annoying innocent travellers like me).
People who only appear to own white shirts. My advice is to live a little, go wild and buy something that wouldn't have looked out of place on a deckchair on Brighton beach in 1975.
Men who wear french cuff shirts with knot cuff links. I can only assume you don't know what real cuff links are. It looks cheap.
People who appear to have either gone into the barbers and said 'grade two all over please' or have bought a pair of cheap clippers and done it themselves. Have they never heard of layering or indeed 'style'?
Mr Competitive (still, after all of this time!) for he now stands at 'his place' on the platform even when its pouring with rain just so he gets on the train first.
Ticket barriers at tube stations that aren't very good at their job.......e.g. They don't accept tickets, which rather defeats the object of their existence (unless they are in the employment of the devil with a sole purpose of annoying innocent travellers like me).
People who only appear to own white shirts. My advice is to live a little, go wild and buy something that wouldn't have looked out of place on a deckchair on Brighton beach in 1975.
Men who wear french cuff shirts with knot cuff links. I can only assume you don't know what real cuff links are. It looks cheap.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
The trouble with me...
Since the start of 2007 I seem to be getting more and more irritated by the silliest of things. For example, people with trousers an inch too short for their legs - it looks silly, and how I groan when I see it happening. Surely, like me, people check before leaving the house to make sure that their trousers fit?
Another good example is men who have taken to wearing brown shoes with dark suits - I don't care whether brown is the new black, it doesn't work unless you are the man from del monte and are wearing a light tan linen number (which is to be avoided at all costs unless you also own a hat).
Finally, in this rant, I would like to draw attention to men who have started to wear long pointy shoes. Their feet can't possibly fit into more than about two thirds of the shoe. I know if I wore shoes like that I would not only look like a penguin, but would also stumble around tripping over them, which again, is plain daft.
Answers on a postcard to Points of View, London.
Another good example is men who have taken to wearing brown shoes with dark suits - I don't care whether brown is the new black, it doesn't work unless you are the man from del monte and are wearing a light tan linen number (which is to be avoided at all costs unless you also own a hat).
Finally, in this rant, I would like to draw attention to men who have started to wear long pointy shoes. Their feet can't possibly fit into more than about two thirds of the shoe. I know if I wore shoes like that I would not only look like a penguin, but would also stumble around tripping over them, which again, is plain daft.
Answers on a postcard to Points of View, London.
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