I’m all shiny today. All suited and booted. I have a presentation to deliver to a client. It’s been years since I’ve had to regularly wear a suit to work as both my current and my previous jobs have been fairly relaxed about what you wear. I mean, I’ve not pushed my luck and come in dressed as a pantomime horse or anything but they are flexible enough.
Smart work wear adds a series of complications to my working day. Crush avoidance for one. Travelling for 5 minutes on a 22 bus can easily negate an entire evenings careful ironing. My current addiction to beans on toast at lunchtime is another hazard. I can safely predict that I’ll be sitting at my desk at lunch with a napkin tucked into the collar of my shirt like Del Boy or some demented uncle at a wedding.
Perhaps the biggest issue I encountered this morning though was ‘pocket unfamiliarity’. Which pocket do I put my iPod in? Never mind the credit crunch, issues like that can make or break a man’s day.
Incidentally, that’s not me in the photo. I’m more clean shaven and as mentioned before, my suit is more crushed. It’s purely for the benefit of one particular reader who has an irrational phobia of chimps in human clothing…….
on Sep 17th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
AAAAaaaahhhhh my nemesis ! ! !
A C H I M P in H U M A N C L O T H E S
You had to do it didnt you !?
omigod its, its, an….a b o m i n a t i o n is what it is.
Its, its….. causing me to p’unctuate un-con-trolably !!
You can dress an Elephant in a tu-tu, a Marmoset in Armani but forgodsake you cannae put a Chimps in GAP.
My spleen……..its,its puncturing . . . ..