Loss can be a sweet: losing one's virginity. Loss can make one despondent: losing a family member after a long illness; loss can be annoying: losing one's car keys on a rainy night. Loss can be frustrating: losing a game or bet. Loss can be scary: losing a job in a bad economy. Loss can be part of the cycle of renewal: a tree losing its leaves in the fall. Loss can have sartorial repercussions: losing weight, thus creating the need for a smaller-sized wardrobe.
Loss can also be downright farcical. One could, for example, find a website that caters to people who buy thrift clothes or other items that people have deemed as "junk." Or maybe poor deceased Uncle Harry's entire wardrobe. Imagine such a website offering the following up for bid:
With an opening price of only $5, what committed Dodgers fan could resist? Surely, a maximum bid of $7.50 should easily (EASILY!) guarantee winning these beauties and having proper footwear for summer and for humiliating his children in public!!!. Alas, it was not meant to be, as someone, somewhere decided that these fancy shoes were worth the princely sum of $9.50. What kind of world is this that $2.00 can rend someone's heart from that which he covets? It is a cruel world indeed. But more importantly, who would have guessed that two people would actually bid on these?
Think about it like this: it was another father with children much older, perhaps tween or teen. That way you rest in the fact that his children will be mortified when their dad wears these shoes.
ReplyDeleteThe power of positive thinking! Thanks!
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