Be Encouraged!!

Hello Fellow Travelers!!

Our road trip had to make an unscheduled stop, but we’re ready to resume.

How many times have you heard yourself or someone else say “all the good men are taken”?  Sometimes you look around you and you’re almost convinced of it!

Before you determine if some guy is a good man or not, everything begins with the first impression.  I’m not impressed with the brother in the sagging pants and wife beater standing outside the neighborhood bodega.  I realize that brother might be a doctor, lawyer, have a steady job with a pension, his own place, his own car, and may enjoy many of the same things that I do.  But the sagging pants are an immediate turn-off for me.  I realize some women don’t mind it, so to each his own.  But any man over the age of 17 should have his pants pulled up.  Whenever I see these guys with their pants sagging, and their baseball caps turned to the side, and I know they’re in their late 40’s, I want to slap them upside the head and say “You look ignorant! Pull your pants up and turn that hat around! Your old ass out here looking like you still think you’re one of the damn mouseketeers!” For fear of bodily injury I resist the inclination to slap them, and instead choose to say my hellos and keep moving….LOL

This awful fashion trend has found its way into arenas other than  outside the corner store.  Some dress like this when they’re going out to dinner, a show, and other places, it’s their version of being dressed up - sagging name brand pant and a sports jersey with matching sneakers and hat.   A few weeks ago I attended a show where a brother was dressed just like this.  He was there with the friend of a friend.  He was 52.  It makes your heart break. 

Every time he walked past me I kept thinking “Really?  Really? Is this what a single, middle-aged woman is left to deal with?”

I’m happy to say the answer to that question is “NO!”

This weekend I attended my high school class reunion.  (It was a blast!!)  It was a beautiful site to see men in suits, sport coats, and pants that fit.

So ladies, don’t give up yet! There is a man out there for each of us who knows what to wear and when to wear it.  Who knows that he has to come with his game intact, and the proper battle gear.  HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL!!