The End Is Nigh... Dress Fashionably!
One of the things I love about working in DC (yes there are actually a few things I like about DC) is that there is never a lack of street entertainment. Be it sidewalk musicians, tourists, badly dressed Washingtonians, demonstrators, or raving nutters, there is always SOMETHING to amuse oneself with. This is especially true on Fridays. It seems that by the time Friday rolls around the uptight people in this faux-city have reached their bursting point.
This in mind, you can sympathize with me when I say that on his particular Friday morning I was just too damn worn out to give much effort. In fact it was all I could do to leave the comfort of my bed and get dressed. When I'm in this state it's not pretty and I usually end up slumming. i.e. I put on whatever is clean and stumble out the door. I went to work this morning unshaved, no product in my hair, wearing a loose pull over shirt and a baggy pair of jeans with ratty sneakers (thank God for the flexibility of Casual Friday). I essentially looked like a frumpy straight dude.
You can imagine why chagrin when I got half a block from my office and found out it was the end of the world. Yes, the end of the world. The joy bringer who informed me of this was some polite screamer who looked like he just crawled out of a dumpster, holding a sign above his head, and screaming about how today was the end of the world and all of us "American Pigs" were going to die in the flames of Hell.
I was shocked. I mean genuinely horrified. Here it was the end of the world and I'm dressed like trailer trash fresh out of a shopping spree at Wal-Mart. I was genuinely upset and had half a mind to go home and change (who would care if I was late, after all Armageddon was nigh), but instead I called Daphne to see if she too had slummed for the end of the world. To my relief she had, and together we bemoaned our fate of dying a fiery death in unfashionable clothes.
As a postscript to this entry (Added after the end of Friday) you can imagine our immense relief when the world didn't end. But it did leave us with a very valuable and sobering life lesson: Always dress fashionably, for the end of the world may be nigh! 
