I have never been a shopaholic. I barely go out just to shop. I also dreadfully dislike being anyone’s purchase pal. I consider it as one of the worst jobs in the whole universe. Accompanying someone to buy stuff, waiting until the person tries on a hundred clothes in the trial room and the most sickening of all - your choice being discarded but their own being chosen! What’s the whole point?
Now for a person like me, for obvious reasons, good knowledge about new trend and fashion might be something out of my league.
A friend rushes to me one day.
She seems pretty excited and says (almost screams), “Guess what my boyfriend got me for my birthday?!”
“Hmmmm...er...mmmm..umm..aa... I don’t know. WHAT?” (Sounding as much excited)
“He got me this lovely blue skirt, shades and moccasins” she continues to scream
“Oh Wow! That’s awesome! That skirt looks beautiful on you. And the shades too! And what is this Mocha-sins? Is it some kinda crazy drink available at Mocha?”
“Are you kidding me? Moccasins is NOT a drink. It is footwear!” Screaming at a higher pitch this time.
“Oh! Okay” I said and wondered why the dinosaurs are extinct and not here right now to gobble me up!
That shouldn’t have happened. Especially for a person who knows that sometimes not talking is the most legitimate diplomatic option. A squeak and “awww so cute” and a few blinks would’ve done the needful.
I felt so guilty of not being aware of such ‘simple’ things. I came home and the first thing I did was text all my friends asking them what Moccasins meant according to them. That was to get a general picture as to how bad was I compared to others.
These were some of the replies I received
1. “People who sin by drinking too much Mocha coffee” (too close to my answer :P)
2. “What is it? Some kind of exotic cocaine?” (this person is too much obsessed with matters relating to cocaine these days :P )
3. “A sin committed by wearing Mochi chappal” (this mentions about footwear. not too far! :P)
4. “Shoes. In leather” (bingo!)
After all, I am not the only one who gets these strange meanings out of unfamiliar names. I was no longer guilty about my stupidity but I, somewhere in corner of my mind was feeling not so good about being so uninformed. I decided right then. I should at least be aware of things which are “in” if not shop those. Ndtv Goodtimes and Travel and living have been my ‘homepage channels’ since that day.
Now I’m not just aware of Moccasins but also am good at identifying Skimmers, Clogs, Espadrilles and Mary Janes...but I still believe that chappals and shoes are the only categories of footwear which exist and the above mentioned are chappals with the different (sometimes weird) shapes!
Who gave shoes such a whacked out name? Doesn’t shoe sound sweet enough?
P.s Please excuse typos, spelling mistakes, strange grammatical choices and bizarre shifts in tense.
3 comments:
Wow, thanks for educating me on that. I almost feel out of fashion when I hear all that Greek and Latin. Hope to c some more educative posts like these.:)
ha. i was the all knowing one, whose correct reply u very thoughtfully put in the end :P
I've mentioned it in the order i received the replies. You were the last one to reply :P
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