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Back Away Slowly from the Crazy Man

This evening, I just noticed that the light sweater I had been wearing all day happens to be inside-out. Now I'm wondering why no one mentioned anything.

Theory 1: Nobody noticed or cared, kind of like nobody notices or cares about your bad hair days either. On even a casual inspection, it's obvious: the seams on the sides are showing, there's a little tag on the side, the buttons aren't visible, and so on. But on the other hand, people really don't look that closely at these things, the sweater is a basic dark grey all around and so who else would ever notice? Particularly since I work with engineers. God bless engineers.

Theory 2: People did notice and decided that I was going crazy, since I'm really too young even for early-onset dementia. Just smile and nod and back away from the crazy writer guy and hope you don't need to flee the building later that afternoon.

I'm leaning towards Theory 2, since I haven't shaved since Monday. Plus I was having a bad hair day. My job depends on establishing relationships with my engineering colleagues based on mutual respect... but failing that, fear works too.

Posted by Evan Goer on Oct. 24, 2007 at 10:56 PM | Comments (8)

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Heh. I have at least one of those a year with the backwards facing sweater. I just chalk it up to getting dressed before noon (when I would naturally actually be alert)

However, hate to break it to you, but early onset dementia starts in the 24-28 range, so you're toast if it's already setting in. ahem I actually have to watch for it myself (yay genetics).

But, Don't Panic, I'm going with #1 here. I can terrify you with tales of my morning clothing crises at some other time that doesn't commit them to print.

Posted by Dru on Oct. 25, 2007 at 8:15 AM
Evan, you work with male engineers. You could grow your hair long, gain some weight, not shave, and wear your sweaters inside out, and the only one who would notice would be me when I came into town. You might get a "did you do something different to your hair?" from someone, but that's about it.

Posted by Michelle on Oct. 25, 2007 at 8:23 AM
Evan, you work with male engineers. You could grow your hair long, gain some weight, not shave, and wear your sweaters inside out, and the only one who would notice would be me when I came into town. You might get a "did you do something different to your hair?" from someone, but that's about it.

Posted by Michelle on Oct. 25, 2007 at 8:28 AM
See, Michelle tries to calm my nerves, while Dru scares the crap out of me about the early onset dementia thing. What's up with that?

I definitely feel a lot less sharp than I was in my mid-20s. Hmmmm.

Posted by Evan on Oct. 25, 2007 at 8:35 AM
I wasn't trying to scare you... more reassure you that you'd already be well into the downward spiral for early-onset if you were going to be.

Oh wait. Hrm. Maybe I'm just a bad man. Ah well, off to ridicule default printer installs.

Posted by Dru on Oct. 25, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Arrrgh, Dru. I'd track you down and get you for that -- if only I could remember your address. Or what you look like. Or where I know you from.

What were we talking about again?

I like pie.

Posted by Evan on Oct. 25, 2007 at 2:44 PM
I can't believe that you never considered the possibility that people just assumed you were hip to the new fashion trend.

(Remember, the inside out pockets in Back to the Future 2...)

The future is now, haven't you heard? I think you should look to see if you have any copycats in the next week...you may be starting a fad!

Posted by Adivz on Oct. 25, 2007 at 5:52 PM
I think you should run some tests. Keep wearing your sweater inside out for awhile and see if anyone eventually notices. Then circulate around to other non engineering depts, say marketing. If STILL no one says anything, and you notice you've picked up a security guard or two shadowing you throughout the day I think its safe to go with #2.

Posted by Sam on Oct. 26, 2007 at 12:49 PM

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