{"id":401,"date":"2010-01-04T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=401"},"modified":"2010-01-04T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:56:00","slug":"some-things-are-better-left-unsaid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/some-things-are-better-left-unsaid-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;And, of course, this is one of those things. &nbsp;Especially since there is a very likely chance that the people I&#8217;m writing about will read this. &nbsp;I <i>know<\/i> for a fact that some of them read my blog.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, women who tie gigantic traditional scarves to church, all in the name of <i>Thanksgiving<\/i> &#8211; or whatever it is they might have in mind when they wear these things &#8211; should be made to sit at the back! &nbsp;As one who is a fan of the big scarves &#8211; the wider, the better &#8211; I have to say that I was not finding it funny yesterday when I could literally not see anything in front of me &#8211; apart from a scarf, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I know and understand the euphoria &#8211; and I use the word, <i>euphoria<\/i>, sparingly &#8211; behind tying a huge scarf. &nbsp;Really, I do. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t mind wearing one to a social event. &nbsp;<i>Once<\/i>, I even wore a really big one to church, but I have to be selfish here and say that I do not want one of those scarves in front of me. &nbsp;In my defense, of course, I only wore the gigantic scarf to church <i>once<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>After carefully looking at a few women&#8217;s scarves today, I came to a logical (but slightly radical and even&nbsp;debatable) conclusion: <b>these women do it on purpose!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some of these scarves don&#8217;t even have the artistic factor anymore. &nbsp;No longer do you look at them and marvel. &nbsp;Well, you marvel, but for a different reason. &nbsp;You marvel at some of them because they look like their owners just folded them &#8211; perfectly, might I add, placed them on their heads, and then, somehow, inflated them up with air. &nbsp;So now, they just look like ballooned squares that are busting out at all their corners. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I have to do is make sure that all the big-scarf-wearing women in my church don&#8217;t see this post. &nbsp;That shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult.&nbsp;All I have to do is make sure they don&#8217;t go anywhere close to the world wide web. &nbsp;That, too, shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult. &nbsp;It&#8217;s just a few hundred women after all. &nbsp;<b>*Gulp*<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/><b>Read <i>Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid (1)<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verastic.com\/2009\/11\/some-things-are-better-left-unsaid-1.html\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And, of course, this is one of those things. &nbsp;Especially since there is a very likely chance that the people I&#8217;m writing about will read this. &nbsp;I know for a fact that some of them read my blog. 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