Okay, so I know I just wrote something lamenting the loss of tails–but I just looked down at my feet and OMG–why are feet so ugly????
I just looked at my footsmart.com catalog and the feet there are only marginally less ugly.
It’s not just me.
This begs the question: why would anyone want a pedicure to draw attention to their feet? And why, on Earth, would Rex Ryan be making foot fetish videos?
I know that evolution is a pretty amazing thing, though I cannot help but wonder why we haven’t come up with a more compelling means of propulsion than feet after a few million years?
The subject of feet reminds me of the time that the girls from the office talked me into going for a pedicure at the local nail salon.
The soaking was great, but as soon as the pedicurist went to touch my feet–BAM!–I hit the ceiling and exploded in the most manic fit of laughter.
She looked at me like I was completely insane and began vociferously complaining to her fellow employee in Vietnamese, who, at the time, was wrestling an only marginally less touch-phobic colleague.
I would have given anything to know what they were saying about us…scathing as it probably was. (If I could have ONE magic power it would be the ability to understand, speak and cuss people out in any language!)
While a nice soak was great, I was very dubious about the concept of pampering and nail polish and the like…Why draw attention to what, in my humble opinion, is one of the ugliest parts of the human body?
This whole train of thought has lead me to a broader conclusion: there is much about biology that makes absolutely no sense.
For example: having had two children by c-section I can tell you that there is an issue of “scale” with human heads.
And that’s not the only part of human evolution that calls into question a grand design.
Take sinuses, if I were grading those as a homework project: *Fail* I live with a family of allergy-prone people. Didn’t anyone figure in the runny noses?
My family are a veritable herd of Snuffleupagouses…(no idea if that’s how you spell it, haven’t watched Sesame Street lately).
And they all have relatively unattractive feet, too.
It makes you wonder if there were any qualified engineers in heaven during the whole design process?
In God’s image? I find it hard to believe that God is prone to back problems, hemorrhoids and sinus infections.
Or does God just have a really twisted sense of humor?
I’ll be thinking about that next time I put on my socks.
Wow. We Americans live in the world’s most obese nation–but we’re inventing holidays like “National Doughnut Day”?!
