SSs [read CLOTHES NAZIS] dictating how we dress is a hoot. If you don't have common sense about appropriate attire for notary signings, or any other event or occasion, you aren't likely to "get it" from an SS.
Heels, dresses, and full makeup? Puh-leeeeeze. This is Maine. We have mud season, overflowing rivers and streams in early spring, roads that imminent wash-outs, ice storms, and blizzards. We drive over rural roads with frost heave that provide unasked for readjustment to your spine and ruts as deep as the Grand Canyon which provide unasked for realignment to our wheels. Our temps dip well below zero and then there is the WIND. How does one apply make up on a frostbitten face??? Oh yes, bring me my Chanel suit, Gucci stiletto heels, smear me in Lancome, and I'm good to go. NOT.
We dress appropriately for the weather here. If I waltzed up to a borrower's home for a signing in the driving rain with mud up to my ankles when I got out of the car, the Mainer in the house would probably send me packing as I didn't have the common sense as to how to dress in Maine.
No doubt my notary cousins in rural areas of the northern climes are nodding their heads. My hope is that the SS's in those warm and fuzzy climates who are sitting on their duffs sipping their cocktail du jour by the pool will PULL THEIR HEADS OUT OF THOSE DUFFS AND GET REAL.
As I look out my window, I see 2" of fresh, wet delightful snow on my deck and lawn. We're forecast for 6-12 inches overnight, ladies and gentlemen. T'ain't high heel weather, me darlin's.
Happy spring.
As we say up there in Maine, "if you can't stay through the winters, then you don't deserve the summers." |
