It’s cold outside and, at times, pretty cold inside the furniture store. Thus, as I got dressed for work today, I decided to don two sweaters – a turtleneck layered with a wool, cardigan-type, multi-colored sweater. Within minutes of walking in, I received a compliment. “Nice sweater,” said one of the salesmen. “Thanks,” I replied.
As I walked through the store I noticed several other employees in sweaters. This didn’t surprise me because, as stated earlier, the store gets cold. After being there for a few hours I saw a really horrible sweater, and then another. In fact, the majority of the sweaters were rather ugly. “Wow,” I thought to myself. “Some of these guys have incredibly bad taste.”
Seeing these reminded me of the story Q shared about being at her husband’s work party and noticing someone in a tacky sweater. “What a great tacky Christmas sweater. I have to tell him,” she told her husband. He replied, “No, don’t do that. I don’t think that is a joke. He wears sweaters like that all of the time.”
About this time someone else complimented me on my sweater and another person said, “They never tell me when we are doing special days. I had no idea today was ugly sweater day.” “Serious? I wish I had known. I have a ton of tacky sweaters at home,” I told them. I then noticed them looking at my cardigan sweater. “Hey! This is a nice sweater,” I informed them and walked away.