This morning on my ride to work a garbage truck man yelled something at me while lifting a trash can. Then a black kid B.A.'d me while walking to school with a group of his friends. I got a little self-conscious and started feeling like everyone on the street was looking at me a little cross-eyed. I checked myself at the next red light and my zipper was up and as far as I could gather I felt pretty fine. Then it dawned on me. Where I grew up, we used to call flip-flops 'thongs'. I don't know when the lexicon changed exactly, but now a thong means something completely different. So everytime someone says to me: "Hey, isn't it a little cold to be wearing those sandals?" and I want to answer: "No way, thongs are for anytime," I have to check myself so they don't look at me all screwy or slap me or something.
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I pitty the poor foo who wears thongs on a bicycle,
I pitty em!
-B.A. Barachus
They still call them thongs in Australia.
sometimes I put on a thong and think I've put on flip flops and then when I get outside and step on some glass I realize I've made a terrible mistake.
I noticed my daughter calling them flip-flops and realized that everything was different
Simple(TM) sells "Stop Global Warming" flip flops. Now that is taking a stand.
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I am glad you have externalized this pop-culture observation. I personally have agoinized over the transistion from "comfy footwear" to "something that is probably uncomfortable no matter what sex is wearing it."
i love wearing flip flops when i haveing my period. they sit lovely on my hips without hugging the bloat fat. thanks to seasonal i ony have a period 4 x a year.
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