When I was buying these pants I’m wearing for the New Job, the salesman kept going on and on about how they were fluid resistant.
“It just beads up! Rolls right off!”
I nodded and smiled and tried to look impressed, but all the time I thought, okay already, just ring me up. I honestly don’t care about the pants advanced features. I resent having to wear them, because they are not jeans. But the new job is not jeans-friendly, so here I am.
But you know… it really does bead up. There should be a fairly substantial fluid stain in my lap area right now from this Coke I’ve just spilled, but it’s as dry as a bone. Wiped right off.
Huh. How do I get my jeans to do that?
Ah.. Engineer pants.
11 years I’d managed to be a professional engineer without having to wear engineer pants.
*sigh*
You’re wearing a space-age polymer!
Maybe you could treat your jeans with spray teflon.
Or Scotch Guard.
Are you trying to get me to wear a kilt?
I’m on to you.
Hey, you’re the one who brought up Jesus, HE wore unbifurcated men’s garments!
I’m almost positive Jesus had better calves than I do.
I’m living in the future!
Then, I could cook things on my legs as well.
Maybe you should just avoid spilling things on yourself – otherwise, I might make you go live in the basement.
*splash* *melt*
What do you think would happen if you went swimming in those pants?
I can only assume I would levitate a millimeter over the water.
Jesus wore khakis!
Where can I get me some of them magic pants?!
In that magical wonderland known as Discover Mills.
Turn left at the Elf.
Polos Too!
I’ve been getting the “anti slob” treatment on the polo shirts I wear to work, to great lunch-dribbling clean up effect.
I read something about the technology of this fabric treatment as being environmentally less than friendly, but there have been times when I’ve worn a shirt to work only once before getting some mysterious indelible stain on it that demotes it to a “dressed up yard work” status.
I get mine through the catalogs, since I am allergic to malls. LL Bean, land’s end, that sort of thing. You can buy a well made something without having to wear a logo of a corporate entity for which you aren’t being paid to advertise.