GET THE GANDER UP

Hello Speakies:

Warm wishes to you today from Sunny Central Florida. Not many observances today. We have National Gossip Day, Wiggle Your Toes Day and Lucille Ball’s birthday. Crack open a bottle of wine or open a cold one, spread some news about a co-worker, kick off your shoes and wiggle the tootsies and watch reruns of I Love Lucy.

I heard a radio commercial today on the way to work that frosted my butt. Call me old fashion but I have the right to speak my mind here. The commercial started out with a girl pleading with her mother, “Mom, if I don’t have those designer jeans, how can I even face my friends in school?” Then a manly voice appears saying, “We have those mall store designer jeans at - - - - -, at half the price, so your children can face their friends when school starts in style.” What bullshit, jeans are jeans. Come over to my house kid, I have a pair with holes on the knees; you can have a Joey Z designer original. I wish these commercials and their sponsors quit putting pressure on kids, they have enough to worry about. When I was a kid I got my jeans at a local 5 & 10 cent store and was happy, no designer label and they were stiff as a board until Mom washed them. So parents next time your kids want a $50 pair of jeans, take them to a local Army and Navy store. They have a great designer label named “IRREGULARS”.