today at our staff meeting, my manager challeged us to spend the hour and a half we normally spend plus our lunch hour doing something creative, something apart from our routine.
I ended up at the mall because I heard Champs was selling skateboards for $19.95 and some days walking back to my building from the main campus I wish for some alternative transportation. I never owned a skateboard but rode frequently when i was a youngster. I ended up in a shoestore where I saw the new kicks and the on sale kicks. I spotted a brown dress slip-on, my second choice, which came in 13s. I tried it on, looked in the floor mirror, then looked down at my feet and they were strikingly similar to the black shoe i had on.
“That looks a lot like my shoe,” I said aloud.
“That’s what I was thinking,” replied the salesman
Realizing the limits of my creativity, I decided to leave. I forgot to get my skateboard.
I saw a guy riding a skateboard today, near Guilford College. He was playing an off-white Fender Stratocaster guitar plugged into one of those tiny personal amps that hang on your belt. I reached for my camera that’s always on the floor board beside of me to get a shot… I left my camera in the other van. Oh well, maybe another day.
You ought to get there and buy your board! One that goes well with your shoes, of course.
Creativity, Stephen, is something that we forget to use. We are bloggers, though, we are creative, right?
that fancy camera and you need to go to the mall to tap into your creative side? c’mon, now…
You probably just saved yourself an appointment with the office first aid kit.