Fashions of UPS

Today I am yet again at work sitting bored. I have been thinking of a subject for a while now, and it is the fashion sense of the people that work at the UPS store that resides 2 doors down from my place of employment. I am friends with the owner and his wife, and this blog really has to do with the people that they employ rather than them.
I don't really know the personalities of the workers that handle your package so gently, but they seem kind of dweeby. I know that is not actually a real word, but I am sure that none of you question it's meaning. Apparently there is a uniform for the people that work at the store(definitely not as bad as the uniform for the drivers of the big brown trucks), this uniform is simple and only involves wearing your black UPS polo with khaki pants. Simple enough. There are two guys that work there that look to be around my age.
One of them is a pretty good looking guy, good haircut, glasses, good build. But! He always wears brown Dr.Martins to work with his black polo. How old were you when you learned that you are not supposed to wear black and brown together? I was a junior in high school, when a girl told me that she hates when guys wears the black and brown combo(thank goodness I was not making the same mistake at the time I was learning outrageous fashion foe pa, I may have never recovered from the ridicule). At first I thought she was just pulling my chain, as I was pretty gullible back in the day, and had little to no fashion sense(yet still today). Turns out she wasn't joking. Who made this rule? Is it even a rule? Did someone just start this rumor that black and brown do not go together and people started to believe and all of the sudden his joke was accepted as common knowledge? Who am I kidding?!! We know it had to be a woman that started the rumor in the first place. I used to think that black and brown looked just fine together, but now I have been so brainwashed by societal norms that I commonly find myself repulsed by these people who don't know the rule.
My solution for this is one of two answers: first we have government enforced BLAKOWN days, this is where everyone in America is forced to wear black and brown together somewhere on their bodies...after a few generations have passed on we can repeal these laws and hopefully this societal norm will be no more. My second proposed solution is that each parent should tell their child as soon as they can talk and understand what their parents are trying to teach them(maybe potty-training age). I found out when I was a junior in high school! This dude that works two doors down still doesn't know! People are finding out that black does not go with brown way to late in their lives...and it needs to stop.
Another thing that I noticed about this certain employee is that his pants show at least 3 inches of his ankles when he is standing(they probably turn into some type of shorts when he sits). All of his pants are like this! He has several pairs of khaki pants, and I have seen him come in to work on his day off. All his pants are too short from my point of view.
Here is my final question: Is this guys lack of fashion sense holding him back from finding a girlfriend? Now I know that he is not married, but I do not know if he has girlfriend. I believe that it is holding him back from hooking up with some major hotties. This guy is good looking, perhaps more so than I or even my friends! This is a problem, yet is goes unresolved. Oh well, I guess that he could end up with a great looking wife anyway.....if he makes a lot of money:)

What's the deal with shoes? They're like clothes for your feet.

Just sitting at work...trying not to go out of my mind in boredom. It's not working well. When I get bored, I get irritated easily. Another reason could be that today is the day that I started our taxes. So I am sitting here and an awful scent hits my nose...I look down, I am sitting on my feet. The smell is coming from my shoes. I know what you're thinking, and no, didn't step in anything. I got a pair of DC shoes for Christmas 2006. (Thanks Kel!). They have this pretty faint rubber smell, and it has not faded since the day I got them. I remember the smell specifically when I got the shoes. I remember convincing myself that the smell would fade along with that new shoe smell. Here it is a little over a year later, and it still bugs me. I don't really know why, my shoes before these were DC brand and I freaking loved them.
This occurrence has caused me to ponder on a few questions. Did they start using different rubber in the 13 months between my shoe purchases? Did some CEO or design team somewhere decide that he could save a few bucks by using a rubber that had a little annoying smell that would disturb guys with great noses(like myself), and dogs across the planet? Another idea would be that this CEO or design team chose this rubber because it is very durable. They may have even spent more money on this rubber than the stuff that doesn't smell. I just looked at the bottom of my shoe, and the painted graphic have not worn out at all, I still have full tread, and they show signs of very little wear....this is after over a year of wearing them on a regular basis. Okay, I am sure that everyone who reads this knows that DC is a skate brand(I am also sure that everyone who reads this knows that I have never skated a day in my life...poser), and granted skaters are probably pretty hard on shoes, but how tough do these things have to be. Now I am going to have to throw them out, not because they will have worn out, but because they will be decades past being in style.
This DC rubber problem has caused me to vex greatly, and I will soon be calling the company to see what really happened with the beautiful, weak, non-smelly rubber....my voice will be heard.