Radical Reformation
10 January 2009These days, with the weather colder and often wetter, when out-of-doors I generally wear my Peterman duster and my Jaxon nubuck leather safari hat. Throw-in the L.L Bean Wellington boots, and you have what the Woman of Interest calls my mouse-boy
outfit. (I am not, never have been, and never plan to be a cowboy, but I have had mice and plan again to have mice.)
Meanwhile, I still have the Wolverinesque sideburns.
To-day, I was walking past the Hillcrest CVS/pharmacy, with the sideburns, duster, and hat (but wearing Skecher's trainers). A couple of fellows, in all seriousness, asked me if I were Amish. I told them that I was not, but one said to the other He's one of those.
and asked me what I was. I'm an atheist.
The fellow seemed to take that as confirmation of what he'd thought. Perhaps he uses an odd taxonomy.
RE: "one of those", something similar once happened to Haldane, or was it Russell? I can't find the source now.