Brad Hollerbach is the Director of Information Technology for the Southeast Missourian. His opinions are his own and do not reflect those of the newspaper or its editorial board. He writes this blog primarily for his own amusement and to parody the absurdities of the world we live in. He lives with his wife and two cats that don't really care for one another in Cape.

Life's Balance

Posted Monday, September 20, 2010, at 12:00 AM

I was driving back to work the other day, when a young man started to shuffle across the road a couple hundred yards ahead of me.

Considering this was William Street with 4 lanes and a posted speed limit of 35 -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- I thought to myself that this young man might want to pick up the pace or he was going to go from being pedestrian to deadestrian in short order. I started slowing down as a precaution.

But as I got closer, I could see why he was shuffling.

In the style that is popular amongst some male teenagers, his pants were riding midway down his thigh exposing the world to his colorful boxer shorts. He probably couldn't move any faster than a shuffle.

Now, some crankier-old-curmudgeons-than-I might have taken that moment to yell out to the young man "Buy a belt, Droopy-Drawers!" but not me.

No, it occurred to me at that instance that the young man with the top of his jeans closer to his kneecaps than his hips was part of life's balance like Yin and Yang or Night and Day or Laurel and Hardy.

For every young man who shuffles around with his pants halfway down his thigh, there is an opposite old guy -- a geezer some might call him -- who has his pants belted tightly to his chest. He is the Yin to the young man's Yang.

It is natural order. It is balance.

I sped up and headed back to work.

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Funny visual, Rick.

Considering the quality of network TV these days, one could almost base an entire series around that concept. Maybe it could be a "buddy show." "The Adventures of Low-Rider and Pit-Pants" might be a good name.

Thanks for reading.

-- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Mon, Sep 20, 2010, at 9:15 AM
And he probably wonders why no one will hire him. That is if he is looking for work.

-- Posted by howdydoody on Mon, Sep 20, 2010, at 10:03 AM
Maybe his older brother was a really big ole boy.

-- Posted by Old John on Mon, Sep 20, 2010, at 10:07 AM
Why not just go naked and take all the mystery out of it.

-- Posted by voyager on Mon, Sep 20, 2010, at 10:36 AM
Any odds on either of them knowing "who is on first?"

Thanks for the laughs from the bloggers.

-- Posted by IonU on Mon, Sep 20, 2010, at 8:51 PM

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