A laboring man
Today I went jogging round the neighborhood. It was unusually warm, but beautiful. The trees are just beginning to turn, so I got a chance to go "crunchcrunchcrunch" with my feet.
Plodded my way through the Edgewood campus. At the back, they've been doing some reconstruction, creating a circular drive and better access to the Mazzuchelli Center, a lab that hugs the shore of Lake Wingra. A few men were still hanging out at the site.
Getting closer, I noticed one guy half-heartedly shoveling who didn't look like the other two. The other two were wearing bright orange vests, loose-fit stonewashed jeans, and yellow hardhats. Very construction-esque.
This guy was wearing a canvas porkpie (pork-pie?) hat and a form-fitting white tee, which were tucked into a pair of faded slim black jeans that were cuffed a little. And the best part? He had a cigar hanging from the corner of his mouth. He was like...from the fifties. I wish I had my camera. It was the best sartorial moment of the day. I wanted really badly to ask him about his outfit.
Plodded my way through the Edgewood campus. At the back, they've been doing some reconstruction, creating a circular drive and better access to the Mazzuchelli Center, a lab that hugs the shore of Lake Wingra. A few men were still hanging out at the site.
Getting closer, I noticed one guy half-heartedly shoveling who didn't look like the other two. The other two were wearing bright orange vests, loose-fit stonewashed jeans, and yellow hardhats. Very construction-esque.
This guy was wearing a canvas porkpie (pork-pie?) hat and a form-fitting white tee, which were tucked into a pair of faded slim black jeans that were cuffed a little. And the best part? He had a cigar hanging from the corner of his mouth. He was like...from the fifties. I wish I had my camera. It was the best sartorial moment of the day. I wanted really badly to ask him about his outfit.
As we passed him, he looked up and smiled. "How you doing today?" he said out of the corner of his mouth.
Oh, very good.
Oh, very good.
posted by ML at 6:49:00 PM
1 Comments:
Yep, lots of characters in construction. At least the old timers.
Yes! I still volunteer at WORT on Wednesday nights. I hit eight years in May! If you would like to stop by, this Wednesday is good as the IOBY is doing the Great Dane thing and I tend to finish early. This isn't a BYOB to the IOBY thing.
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