{"id":622,"date":"2009-11-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-11-28T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T09:00:00","slug":"black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday, the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, is known as “Black Friday.” The date when stores have many sales to kick off the Christmas buying season. Thank goodness I have already completed all of my Christmas shopping<\/a> for this year. However, we did have to venture out to take a trip to the dump to dispose of garbage and recyclables that remained after our Thanksgiving holiday pot-luck event. We passed by many shopping centers that were packed. Going into stores on days like this are definitely NOT my preference.<\/p>\n

I decided in honour of Black Friday to dress completely in black leather. Black leather jacket, shirt, red-striped black leather breeches, tall Dehner bal-laced patrol boots, and even my Muir Cap and Damascus gloves. A couple of yuppies in jeans and sneakers at the dump emptying their SUVs parked on either side of me looked at me with either incredulity or awe.<\/p>\n

After the trip to the dump, my partner and I did our weekly grocery shopping. Several people in the grocery store noticed my black leather, and one young guy asked me a lot of questions about where I got the gear and boots. I was happy to explain. He seemed intrigued. <\/p>\n

At least I thought so. As we were ending our conversation, he asked me, “what kind of bike do you have?” I guess he assumed that the gear means that I’m a biker. Yes, that’s true. But I don’t only wear my leather gear when I ride my Harley. I wear it regularly, as often as I can. After all, I have made quite an investment in it, so I like to wear it. Hey guys, it’s time to get over worries about what others may think and leather up!<\/p>\n

Life is short: wear your leather!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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