Quote Originally Posted by hospitaller View Post
'No, I have 8 yards of wool wrapped around me, that's more than your cotton jeans and your acrylic hoody, aren't YOU cold?'
Ain't that the truth! I am AMAZED at what some of the hip-types are running around in in this weather...un-firickin'-canny! The triumph of "style" over common sense. It's not like fashion isn't so eclectic these days that anybody with a little imagination couldn't figure out how to bundle up and still be "groovy" but I guess that you just ain't cool if you don't look like you're indifferent to the fact that you're succumbing to hypothermia. I suppose that the theory is that all you have to do is manage to be able to make it from Starbucks to Starbucks and you can keep warm...sort of a relay station thing.

One of our running jokes is to sight one of these gaggles of hip-ly dressed young people and say, "...oh, look...it's the cast of RENT!"

Honestly, though, I rely on the "eight yards of wool" line...once in a while my knees take a bit of a hit but other than that, I'm usually fine.

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