For the kind of work I do, I rarely get to see my fellow team members. So it was a nice change to be in our Nor Cal office and I got to "hang" with a few of them. I work for an hardware engineering firm and as most of you probably are well aware we, engineers amongst other things, severely lack any sense of fashion. Rightly so, I guess. Our mind works in different dimensions and we rarely have a problem with it. We fall in love, marry and breed our kind. so we pass this legacy of lack of keen sartorial appeal to our generations to come!
I am not complaining, mind you. I am just observing.
I ran into one of our young project managers who had been away for the good part of the year on maternity leave. I have chatted with her before, and I somehow never seem to elicit enough (intelligent) responses from her to be able to carry on a conversation beyond 30 sec.
For some reason, on this ominous day(you will know why it was ominous in a few), she decided to show up at work in hot pink pants and a low cut black blouse! I immediately went to a stage of 'fashionaphylactic' shock and started jabbering away with her to cover my involuntary reaction.
Maybe she decided that she need to make a statement and let people know she was back in town! and needed to do it with some sense of panache! whatever it was, she succeeded in getting my attention.
But the strange thing is - that given that we are engineers, and the larger portion of the population consists of men, it probably went unnoticed!
