Apparently I can no longer dress myself.

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I've been in and out of meetings all morning, in front of several people, trying to make good impressions, on my best behavior, and have turned on my not-inconsiderable (HA) charm. I've smiled big smiles, laughed at stupid jokes, I've been the one to make one of the first impressions of our firm, and have generally been the go-to girl. It needs doing, and I'm getting it done.

I am also wearing one navy blue shoe and one black one.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the solution is to own nothing navy!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been getting dressed at 5 AM for like six years now.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna, you are my new hero. I often think of myself as absent-minded, buy you, madam, are quite obviously the master.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I can no longer laugh at people who do this, safe in the knowledge that I have never done it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I did the exact same thing on the first day of on-campus interviews for law firms. Wore one navy and one black of my identical Charter Club sensible midheel pumps. Nobody noticed or cared.

Now I wonder why I even bothered with navy shoes -- the only clothes they would possibly go with are a navy suit. I think I have some secret desire to be a stewardness. I definitely have stewardessmentionitis.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why I have them, either.

I should also mention that they aren't the same shoes - the navy one is suede and the black one is silk.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

TEARS OF LAUGHTER Luna I kiss your in your hour of sartorial need.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the only solution is spraypaint

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Spraypaint SHOES?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(Note how I didn't offer to buy Luna some matching shoes cuz I'm an utter bastard.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(Plus that would be difficult to explain... "um, yeah, honey, it's just that there's this dumb girl who lives in LA, and she can't seem to put together a pair of shoes, so you know, I uh.. thought I'd help. Ow! Why'd you hit me with that frying pan?")

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe you should keep a spare pair of shoes (and an outfit wouldn't hurt) in your car in case something like this happens again.

I used to wear navy ALL THE TIME. Fortunately, I have weened myself from that habit so I don't have to worry so much about combining it with black.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ha, also "Well dear, I'm just buying this ridiculously attractive woman who lives across the country some shoes, what's wrong with that? NO NOT THE BALLS ARGH.")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have often thought that Garanimals should start an adult line.

― Nemo (JND), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

There may be something to that. I liked wearing a pink hippopotamus on my ass as a 5 year old, I don't see how it would be different now.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

They have! "cartoon summer panties"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

At least you're wearing two shoes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

So you're saying I should have shown them my underwear and then no one would have noticed my shoes?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Are the heel heights of the two different shoes the same anyway? That would really suck if not.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, they are, thankfully, or I think even I would have noticed*.

*This is not a guarantee, I'm pretty slow today.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent.

I have never done this with shoes, but it happens a lot with socks, intentionally or otherwise, when the laundry starts getting low - black and navy, darker navy and lighter navy, different grey textures, etc. I suppose it's rather softcore.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally believe that Dan's wife carries around a frying pan.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

does she alternate it with the rolling pin?

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Were the shoes at least for the correct feet? One summer a coworker belatedly realized that she had come to work wearing white sandals from two different pairs...both for the left foot. (No, I don't know how she got through the first part of her day without noticing that the shoe on her right foot was fitting rather strangely.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. Otherwise I'd have gone straight home and hidden under the bed for the rest of the year.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps She wanted to make a statement?

Luna, the trick is wear it with poise. That way, your bosses will think you're trying to start a new trend.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

No Nichole, they know I'm a dumbass.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I once went to work wearing white sandals from two different pairs...both on the left foot.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You lie like dog. Nothing that fantastic could possibly have happened.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I wore two bras once.

(I was still partially drunk from revelry the night before).

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Had you been cheating at strip poker?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but next time I'm gonna! Sadly, it was more of an "oh shit, I'm late for work, grab clothes, throw on, run run run out the door" then realized two hours later once things had calmed down a bit, 'heeEEEyyyyy something feels weird around my boobular area...'

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I once went to work wearing white sandals from two different pairs...both on the left foot.
-- N. (nickdastoo...), December 16th, 2003 6:50 PM. (later)

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I don't care if you were wearing them both on the same foot, but please, please tell me you weren't wearing white sandals.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

OK SO I MADE IT ALL UP FOR A BIT OF HA-HA

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No. No, I'm not. You have burned down my crystal palace.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Awwwwww

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't say it wasn't true.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Well OK, I did but I might have been lying to get the sandal police off my back.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care if you were wearing two white sandals, both on the same foot, but please, please tell me you weren't wearing socks w/ them.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No, they were hanging from my ears.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

PLEASE TELL ME YOU WERE WEARING PANTS

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't count on it!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course I was wearing pants.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean by 'pants'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I MEAN TROUSERS OH NO OUT OUT MENTAL IMAGES

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, you do know those signs -- "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" -- don't say anything about pants.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

porky pig style!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I am wearing the same color shoes. I hate myself because I will now have to double check every day.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

CONFORMIST

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

*bursts into tears*

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterday i walked around the office with my barn door open most of the day. i was wondering why my crotch was icy.

― Chris 'Knuckle Deep' V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

last week, i had on my well-worn dockers on. It wasn't until about 2pmn that i looked down and realized that some jockey grey was peeking thru, since i had ripped the crotch out(somewhat) some while ago...

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I found this white dress shirt in the back of my closet. I thought to myself, there has to be a reason why I haven't been wearing this shirt to work. I checked for missing buttons, wrinkles, stains, dirtiness, and found nothing. It looked almost new. So I wore it today. About midway through the morning, I was in the bathroom, looked in the mirror, and noticed a quarter-sized coffee stain right on the front. I have no idea how I missed it, other than maybe it was really dark in the bedroom yesterday morning.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I for somereason once kept a shirt with a big iron burn on it and wore it one day. since then I don't iron.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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