When I see a person running, and they aren't being chased or in some state of escape, I am annoyed by them.
I say this as a recovering runner. I used to run a lot. A whole lot. I have the screwed up knees to prove it. I want to stop now, before continuing, and apologize to anyone who might have seen me running. It must have been very annoying. I wish I could go back in time and not run, but I can't.
What is it exactly about runners that is so annoying? There are many reasons (just try talking to one), but I think the main one these days has got to be their ridiculous appearance. Particularly their wardrobe.
I saw a runner the other day dressed in a way that initially made me concerned that he might be a recently escaped gimp/slave who had just barely evaded his captors. He was wearing shoe-like foot coverings that no non-prisoner would ever chose for himself, with socks pulled all the way up to his knees. So, already, from toe to knee, he was fairly obviously the victim of some sort of sadistic perversion. Continuing up his fleeing body, he was clad in only frightfully revealing silky shorts that would make RuPaul blush and a child sized backpack of some sort which at first glance seemed to almost certainly be a restraint harness or constriction device.
A victim, he was, but not of another person. He was his own victim, and that of the latest trends of runners to ensure that they not pass up an opportunity to annoy.
He was (and probably still IS) in urgent need of a very private elliptical machine and a trip to any number of clothing stores specializing in articles for socially-functioning human adults.
If you're going to run, please have some respect for yourself and at least have another runner chase you. You could take turns ensuring that only one of you looks annoying at a time.
Oh yeah....and the magazines....you're RUNNING for crying out loud!! Any publisher putting out more than one 2 page issue every 3 or 4 years is ripping you off. Have some self respect.
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