Friday, December 21, 2007
Heelys
I have a colleague who is in his late thirties. He is good at what he does, hard worker, and is usually willing to help others. Yesterday, he showed up to the office wearing Heelys. I quipped something along the lines of it being the latest approved way for us to release our inner child, but got a feeling that he was not entirely unserious about wearing them. We went to lunch (him, me and two other guys) and chatted while walking, and he kept skating away a few feet in front of everyone else, sometimes in mid-sentence. Am I the only one who finds the entire thing (I was going to use the word “behavior” but I think there is a philosophical, or at least an attitudinal, component here, too) a little odd, and not in a good way?
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On the one hand, I really hate hipsters who flaunt their early-adopterdom.
On the other hand, I wonder if these are hella fun.
Oh, I'm sure they are hella fun. But at work? And in the middle of a conversation?! And at 38?!?! Or have a become a hopelessly cranky old man?
yes, you have become a cranky old man ;). It's okay to be serious sometimes but come on now, loosen up, man. Don't give yourself wrinkles. It would be one thing if he skated into a meeting with PW, but out on the sidewalk? Chris wants some of those shoes, too.
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