I was thinking on the bus this morning about the saying “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. Regularly riding the bus to work, I’ve picked up a habit of judging people by their shoes. I’ve always though any sort of sharp heels are really stupid. I know there’s a “taller / nice butt” argument, but that’s pretty shallow and in exchange you can’t run from zombies/etc without removing your shoes which is just plain lacking foresight and dangerous. I think I was talking to Maria about pointy shoes the other day, which I didn’t get either. I have to assume it’s not designed as a weapon. I think Maria said pointy shoes make you look “slimmer” or something. What the fuck people, go climb a mountain or learn to live with your weight.

Anyways, enough about shoes. I definitely judge people by their clothing, so I was thinking about the implied badness of doing this. The whole book cover thing is silly, because a books personality doesn’t choose it’s cover, some random person does. Beit the author, good, be it some random person in the publishing company, who knows. But people choose their shoes, and most everything else, except maybe kids.

So I’m a big fan of reasonable shoes and other utilitarian choices when judging peoples clothes like sneakers/boots, or messenger bags over fancy purses or whatnot . I guess I’m just a hippie or something.