Hot pink is in this season...

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So after being sick for nearly a week, my parents bought me a thermos bottle so I could take hot tea to school in the mornings. I had insisted that I could go buy one for myself, but they countered that I was too sick to be motoring around town to find a nice thermos. So off they went while I resumed driving the porcelain bus (puking).

An hour later they came back with a shiny new thermos in hand. Now, normally an ordinary thermos wouldn't be comment worthy other than to say that it keeps the liquid contents fantastically and deliciously warm. This one has rather fancy ON/OFF buttons to stop and resume the flow of liquid. But seriously, who cares?

Well. Three words. Hot pink accents.

Yes that's right. Whereas most thermos are strictly dressed in black and stainless, this thermos looks like Carson Kressley from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy designed it. I don't know how/where/why my parents managed to buy a thermos with hot pink accents. I mean where in the world?!?! Sigh. But they did. Apparently it was last one at the store. Uh huh. I'm sure they had to pull off the bodies of all the clamoring men trying to buy the last thermos in the store with hot pink accents. Rrrrright.

So I took it to school the other day. This was the typical conversation in the hallways:

My friend: "Dude you're so metro. You've got a pink thermos."
Me: "Shuddap. It takes a real man to pull off the hot pink."
My friend: "And right now you're not doing so well."
Me: "Grrrrr."

As if being teased back in elementary school wasn't enough. Now I have to get teased by all the kids in law school. Blah.

Posted by Dave at January 29, 2004 03:04 PM