Wednesday, July 1, 2009

It would seem that men here are too cool to dry off after a shower

Based on the selection of towels at the big store in town, it seems that dudes just walk around dripping all day long and, clearly, looking cool as a result. There was not a SINGLE masculine towel in the entire store. And I'm talking about a pretty dedicated towel aisle here. Hundreds. And hundreds. Flowers, spirals, pink spinnies, yellow, periwinkle blue and, of course, Winnie the Pooh. I would have sprung for good ol' Pooh Bear and the nice fat "Wah Disnay" (walt disney, based on the lettering) over his head, but it looked like he himself was pretty much the the texture of sandpaper. I ended up going with the seafoam green; it had a tolerable level of flowers and other ornament.

Similar situation with bedsheets. Maybe only women use them. That makes very little sense to me, as there is a roaring trade in fast, western-style mattresses in this town (there's one main street that looks to be somewhat of a mattress warzone; at least five sleeperies, nearly back-to-back, one of which being a superstore of multiple floors that has the presumption to call itself the "Mattress King"). Last week, I spent a solid twenty minutes hunting for the only gender-neutral set in the store that would fit my bed. Turns out that the helpful sales rep was mildly wrong; I ended up with two fitted sheets for a bed several feet wider than my own. It's ok though, they're pretty sweet all the same. If I'm really hurting for some variety in a few months, there's a Superman one buried in the back that's calling my name...

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