photograph: prayers by johnny monahan

Saturday, March 6, 2010

this one's for the guys

so i went to the mall today. easy, easy. the only money i spent was on the gas to get there. i had a fat gift card to use up so that was pretty wonderful. anyway, i did notice something that made me smile and chuckle inside-after seeing myself in a bikini bottom (yikes).

macy's was having a bit of a sale today. so naturally, women were there. i did see men as well. some of these men looked like they may have been partial to men but there were a select few who definitely liked ladies, in fact i knew they loved their women.

how did i know that they loved their women? they were out shopping and it wasn't valentine's day. well, they weren't actually doing the shopping. they were sitting, dazed, looking lost, or fast asleep on the randomly placed upholstered chairs of the department store's floor. each chair i happened to pass by was taken... by men.

the first filled chair (next to the petite section) had an older man completely passed out. he seemed to have found a comfortable enough position as the right side of his face along with his right shoulder were pressed against the chair's back. as i perused the sale rack of dresses my eye caught another chair next to a mirrored column. again, another sleeping man. this guy was trying to play it cool though. and he was doing a good job at it. surely he was a biker or a muscle car man. his head, razor-shaved along with his fairly kempt goatee, led me to this conclusion. black oakley glasses covered his eyes as he reclined. the large tan coach bag with lime green leather trim guarded under his legs added to his coolness. as i made my way to the fitting room, i saw a third male sitting in a chair. this one was fully awake. his eyes were bulging and he looked so lost and out of his element. with his back against the dressing room wall his eyes roamed all over the place. i initially perceived him as creepy, but the previous men softened my judgments to endearing.

good men. decent men. patient men. men who love their women. this one's for you.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah - it certainly wasn't my guy you saw...

    He's drawn the line and Macey's is it.

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