Do NOT go out there
First, it’s damn hot. Second, you can’t get there from here.
Simple lunch time errand. Go to Coal Creek Armory, purchase Glock 17 (3rd Gen) so I can snag one of those Tactical Solutions 22LR conversion kits. Except that traffic was a horrendous nightmare. Lovell Road is the pinnacle of traffic engineering failure. At the light for three rotations. And three more on the way out. 20 minute round trip was more like 50.
And no G17 3rd Gen in stock. Denied. They had a fourth generation.
I did, however, laugh aloud at the Prius in the parking lot at the gun shop.
And I’m annoyed that I’m wearing gay shoes.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I drive a Civic Hybrid, and the President of my home range drives a Prius, although his is plastered with NRA and USPSA stickers and mine isn’t. We both drive ’em for the same reason: Hybrid cars that get over 40mpg could (not anymore, they called it at 10k plates) get a “Clean Air” license plate and use the carpool lanes on the freeways here.
What my Civic lacks in machoness, it makes up for in practicality. I save at least an hour of drive time each day with my lil’ gutless wonder.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Gay shoes? Pictures!
July 16th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Pic of gay shoe. My assistant says they’re gay.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Your assistant is correct.
Try going outside in DeeEffDubyew today. Heat index is going to be about 108. Welcome to the surface of Venus.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Need more info on shoes to help others avoid same error
July 16th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Saw plenty of hybrids last time I went to a sporting clays course here in VA. I swear those ridiculous golf carts people rent to change out their 300-yard targets on the rifle range make more noise.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
More info on the activities of the local Pink Pistols chapter forthcoming? “Armed gays don’t get bashed!”
July 16th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Naw, flip flops are gay. tenny runners that are retro are geek.
As to hybrids, I drive a 1996 blazer with 200k miles. It’s saving grace is that it is paid for and I know every creak and groan in it.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Concur with Rabbit. Your assistant knows! For Pat, simple rule: shoes are leather. Nothing more need be said. I don’t think hybrids are allowed in TX unless they are pick-em-up trucks. Not sure we have Glocks here either.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Possibly gay. Is there a bi shoe for comparison?
July 16th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
It’ll be interesting to see how long two big truck stops and the Turkey Creek megamall complex can coexist at the same offramp.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Order the glock, shoot the prius and throw away the gay shoes. Now u have a great friday:)
July 16th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Nah, the shoes aren’t gay, just nerdy and socially clueless. Hey, that’s me!
July 16th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
P.s. In order to be gay, the shoes would have to have cost you about three times as much and look much spiffier. Those guys won’t have anything to do with anything which looks “tacky.”
July 16th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Yeah, I’m afraid zombie Liberace is going to start stalking you if you keep wearing those.
July 16th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Not-gay shoes. They’re cons for cripe’s sake. Leather only? Next I’ll be hearing that anybody who doesn’t wear a blue single breasted suit and fedora to work is gay. Pfft.
Though, as a folliclly challenged male, I do wish the fedora would make a return. 😉
July 16th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I used to have a pair of those shoes in green and white. But, you know…I’m a girl.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Gay shoes? Maybe not, but Bisexual/Metrosexual most def. In order to confirm you must perform this test: Do you feel like buying a Glock 22 and also buying a barrel in 357 sig? If this warms up your zipper, you do go both ways. 🙂
July 16th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Breda: Women can wear mens clothes without hassle, you don’t count. (:p)
Personally: those shoes are punk or hipster, both transcend the gay/straight distiction. Plenty of gays I know wear steel reinforced leather, so please discount any reference to leather being straight (I can’t believe I’m posting this … Rob Halford people; seriously)
Gays wear all the clothes you wear, ain’t no such thing as “gay apparel” let alone “gay shoes” … be a man and wear all-metal flip flops damn-it!
July 16th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
I didn’t think the shoes were gay – just kinda skater punk. That was until read down to the bottom of the comments and just to the left of it was an ad for stylelist.com. “Style & Beauty News, Tips and More.”
Just saying….
July 16th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
What are those shoes?
Chuck Norrises? Chuck Hestons?
July 16th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Tam, they must be nikes, so, you’re right: just chuck ’em.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Seems rude to blame those shoes on gay people, especially since none of them would probably be caught dead in them.
July 16th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I used to have a pair of gay shoes, really. I know they were gay shoes, because one morning I opened the closet door, and their…… er, nevermind. I just weirded myself out.
July 17th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Don’t have gay shoes but I do drive a Prius:
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2009/05/unique.html
Had a classmate tell me the other day ” I kept parking behind a Prius w/ NRA stickers on it. Then one day I saw you getting out of it and it all made sense.”
July 17th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
You’d hyperventilate if you saw my wife’s li’l red Prius covered with Buddhist bumper stickers but containing 3 AKs and about 3,000 rounds of various calibers of ammo. The irony is never lost on me when I borrow it.
July 17th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
But shooting is my method of achieving zen. I do see irony, but I also see practicality.
July 17th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
…a Prius …plastered with NRA and USPSA stickers…’ Well, THAT oughta confuse the crap outta people.
And the shoes are not so much “gay” as they are “goober”.
July 17th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Screw the Prius. Find a 350, stuff it in a mid-size American sedan, and live your life. (You need to realize that that was not me speaking. It was my dad.) That being said, it is a car. Other people have them. Live with it. They have cars. So what? And, oh yes, fuck Toyota. They lie to me. the minute you buy something, it will start to, um, fu.
July 19th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Your shoes aren’t gay, it’s just that you’re not a 21 year old hipster in a coffee shop.
July 19th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Real men drive any kind of car,wear any kind of shoes,and shoot any kind of pistol they want to.And they ain’t skeered what anybody else thinks;)