Men At Work

Yesterday I used this photo on my tribute post to my step-father; he's the one in the middle. When my mother read the post and saw the picture, she said "Look at him in those light colored shoes and black pants. What was he thinking?"

"Well, that was the style. Look at how they're all dressed." I said.

"They look so gay." she said. "I wonder if they were down-under men?"

"You mean you wonder if they were on the down-low, or if they were from Australia?"

"What??" she said confused, in her uh-oh-I-must-have-said-the-wrong-thing-when-I-actually-meant-something-else voice.

"Mom. I'm pretty sure they were not on the down-low. First, they're not black. Second, everyone dressed like that back then."

Leave it to my mother to question the unmistakable virility of the man she'd spent the last thirty-one years with. I blame Law & Order.

Before that, she never even knew Australia existed.

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