As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
Everyone who knows me assumes I’d pick the backwards baseball cap. They’re wrong. Here’s why I’d rather face the world in hot pink Nikes.
Would you rather have to wear hot pink sneakers or a backwards baseball cap every time you go out, for the rest of your life? This includes work, daily outings, vacations, weddings, etc
If one knows me, one would automatically assume that I would choose to wear a backwards baseball cap every day for the rest of my life. But the truth is, I don’t even wear forward-facing baseball caps very much.
Don’t get me wrong; I like ball caps. I just don’t always like seeing what I look like wearing one. Baseball caps are the one piece of a sports uniform that is permitted in pretty much every aspect of modern life. ESPN.com posted a great article about this several years ago. So pervasive is the ball cap, they said, that even the Pope has been seen sporting one.
Given my choice between the above options, I would probably wear hot pink sneakers every day for the rest of my life. This would be conditional, however: these would have to be a cool style of sneaker. If they were a pair of Jordans, or any style of Nikes, I’d be OK with it. Even some pink running shoes would look good.
One image that always comes to mind of somebody wearing a ball cap – and perhaps it isn’t a very fair portrayal of the accessory – is Jerry Mathers playing Beaver Cleaver on the 1980s TV series The New Leave it to Beaver. I understand that they were trying to create the image of him as being that perpetual eight-year-old goofy kid trapped in an adult body, but it just looked weird. Maybe it’s certain people or certain body types, but a lot of times, when I see grown adults wearing a ball cap, it looks kind of juvenile.
As awkward as both of these options sound, I think wearing hot pink sneakers every day would probably be more socially acceptable than wearing a ball cap every day. I could see somebody wearing hot pink sneakers every day and it becoming something of a fashion calling card – not unlike the way that Steve Jobs was known for wearing his black turtleneck and blue jeans every day; you know, in addition to that whole Apple computer thing he did.
I could see me wearing pink sneakers every day as becoming my trademark. Whether I’m wearing a suit, going to the gym, or to a fancy dinner, people will think when they see me, “That must be Rob. He’s the only guy I know who wears pink sneakers every day.”
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