Monday, February 11, 2008

Oh, Lavoiser, I Wish They Hadn't Guillotined You

As a side note: To attest to the greatness of Lavoiser, I would like to highlight additional evidence of the Law of Conservation of Matter.

Today in Boston, the windchill was negative 20 yet I saw way too many people walking around with a lack of warm knitted appreal. Today was not the day to wear the ballet flats without socks, or skits without leggings or legwarmers, or to go bareheaded.

The only rational explanation for this phenomenon is the Conservation of Matter: all those San Franciscans with the hat/glove/scarf sets have absorbed all the knitted matter leaving Bostonians without any.

1 comment:

Aidan said...

Like the conservation of R's: They go missing from cah in Boston and wind up in warsh in Missouri.

And actually, no one in San Francisco owns a hat/scarf/glove SET. San Franciscans just panic when the temperature dips into the 40's and blindly grab whatever bedraggled, odd old winter accesories they have stashed away in some dark closet and venture forth. It looks kinda like the whole city is playing dress up with stuff they found in the lost-and-found bin.