These days there are all kinds of lounging pajamas to be bought at any store that sells clothing. TJ Maxx, Sears, Kohl's hell even Walmart has some great pajamas. When I was a kid pajamas were what we put on right before we went to bed. We might stay up and watch TV in them for a bit, but then off to bed with you because you weren't "dressed". If people came over you jumped up and ran and changed clothes. Mama never wore her gown around neighbors or visitors at home. There were a couple of exceptions to this rule of course. It was acceptable to be seen in public in your pajamas in two circumstances:
a. Your house caught on fire in the middle of the night when of course you were wearing your pajamas, and in order to save your life you had to race out into the public eye in your PJs.
b. You were stricken with some disease or ailment (perhaps had a heart attack or maybe just a "fit") in the middle of the night and did not have the strength or the sense to change into proper clothing before the ambulance arrived.
Now I go to Walmart and there are people wearing pajamas there shopping in the produce department. Archie and I were at a hotel in Nashville and we went downstairs for the continental breakfast and lo and behold there were scores of hotel dwellers in public having breakfast in their PJs. Someone recently told me that they were interviewing someone for a clerk position,and the gal showed up for the interview in pajamas. The interviewer told the interviewee to come back when she had time to put her clothes on.
What happens to folks that causes them to wander away from home in their nighties? Do they just get lost? Damn, I was headed to the kitchen to make some coffee and the next thing you know I'm in Walmart buying motor oil? Is that like losing your sense of direction or your moral compass? Or your common sense? WTF?
1 comment:
Well said.
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