Images Win Out Again

Humorous Episode from yesterday morning:
I was just finishing davening and putting my tfillin away when my sister woke up and came down stairs (about 9 am). So I still had my tallit on, but I was standing there winding leather straps back around their leather boxes, and trying not to get the fringes and knots of my tallit stuck in the straps (why are the two magnetically drawn together like that?). So, she saw me and proceeds to ask "Where are you going?" My answer was pretty straight forward "I'm putting these away, and then going to work". Her response "Like That??" Somehow the tallit didn't register as something I was putting away, I guess. Maybe she perceived it as fancy clothes, rather than ritualwear.
(I find the word ritualwear particularly pleasing, somehow. DOn't know why).

Second, probably duller anecdote:
At work, I was talking with the ladies in the admin office as I pulled and boxed old files for them. We were talking about the kosher kitchen and the problems with making sure people have paid for SHabbat and holiday meals, and one of them turns to me at some point near this conversation and wants to know if I'm orthodox, and presumes that I only wear skirts, because that's all I've worn to work... Once again, skirt and hem length wins over neckline height for perceptions. I said no, I do wear slacks, but- there it was again. I just really prefer wearing skirts a. in the summer, and b. to work. The combination means that they won't see me in pants all that much, so... (I think at this rate, the only times I'll be wearing slacks are Thursday nights and Sunday... Weird.)

(And since when did they become slacks rather than pants in my vocabulary??)

Images Win Out Again

Humorous Episode from yesterday morning:
I was just finishing davening and putting my tfillin away when my sister woke up and came down stairs (about 9 am). So I still had my tallit on, but I was standing there winding leather straps back around their leather boxes, and trying not to get the fringes and knots of my tallit stuck in the straps (why are the two magnetically drawn together like that?). So, she saw me and proceeds to ask "Where are you going?" My answer was pretty straight forward "I'm putting these away, and then going to work". Her response "Like That??" Somehow the tallit didn't register as something I was putting away, I guess. Maybe she perceived it as fancy clothes, rather than ritualwear.
(I find the word ritualwear particularly pleasing, somehow. DOn't know why).

Second, probably duller anecdote:
At work, I was talking with the ladies in the admin office as I pulled and boxed old files for them. We were talking about the kosher kitchen and the problems with making sure people have paid for SHabbat and holiday meals, and one of them turns to me at some point near this conversation and wants to know if I'm orthodox, and presumes that I only wear skirts, because that's all I've worn to work... Once again, skirt and hem length wins over neckline height for perceptions. I said no, I do wear slacks, but- there it was again. I just really prefer wearing skirts a. in the summer, and b. to work. The combination means that they won't see me in pants all that much, so... (I think at this rate, the only times I'll be wearing slacks are Thursday nights and Sunday... Weird.)

(And since when did they become slacks rather than pants in my vocabulary??)