The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
Ruth, Kate, Michael and I made a visit to The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens on Saturday night. A good time was had by all. I expected to see “lights” but many of the animals were out and about as well. There were many families with young children and I was reminded of similar excursions that Ruth and I took with our three kids many years ago. I was happy that Mike and Kate had joined us. Good times.
The folks in charge of the display did a great job. Many of the light exhibits danced to Christmas music. We purchased two pair of “Magic Christmas Glasses” (my designation). Michael is wearing a pair. One pair makes all of the lights look like reindeer and the second makes them look like snowflakes. If that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.
And, yes, we saw the jaguar and his hairball is gone. (Please refer to my prior post for further explanation.)
Bras and T-Shirts
A word of caution. This portion of my blog may be too risqué for some. Reader beware.
We last visited Palm Springs this past January. I wrote a blog about the inequity in this area’s shoe availability. Women have a far – waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay far – greater number of shopping selections then men. That post was called Dress to Excess and explored, in part, shoe sales in the Coachella Valley.
We have access to a hot tub where we are staying. I didn’t pack a bathing suit so Ruth and I went to the neighborhood Target to purchase one. I cut through the woman’s department on my way to the men’s department and lost my way in – of all places – the bra department. I’m not a regular in this area of Target, so perhaps what I discovered here is typical throughout the entire country. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I had a flash back to my Palm Springs shoe experience.
I couldn’t help myself, so I started counting the rack upon rack (no pun intended) of bras. I counted twenty-seven racks (please see prior comment). There were twenty-four bras on each of the racks which meant that there were 648 bras of various colors, shapes and sizes on display. I never knew that such a variety existed.
I pondered this statistic for a moment and wondered what garment in the men’s 
department might be comparable to a bra. The closest thing that I could come up with was a t-shirt, so I headed that way to make what I thought would be a fair comparison. I found one meager display rack with 19 different packages of t-shirts.
While I fully understand that bras are not one of those “one size fits all” garments, how on earth does our society need such a selection? I know that they have only two purposes, to support and inspire, so I can’t imagine why women get so many choices.
Before my female readers question my observation, please understand that my comments are focused on “undergarments”. I know that there are gazillions of t-shirts available to all of us, but most are designed to display our individuality. I believe that the bras and t-shirts that I saw in Target are intended to be worn, for the most part, as undergarments.
Please understand, I have nothing against bras. In fact there was about a six or seven year period, starting in my late teens through my early twenties, when I was kind of an amateur expert on bras. My area of expertise was …………. Those days are long gone.