Scarf at the dinner table

[pegkerr]

I eyed Rob at dinner tonight. "Is that a Delia scarf?"

He had draped around his neck a multicolored knitted scarf. Most of it was rainbow yarn, and it had a black border on just one end. Even more odd, it had . . . three tassels, in a yarn that did NOT match, two on one end, and one (in one corner) on the other.

"It is indeed. I'm wearing it proudly."

"It's ugly," Delia said, giving the scarf a critical look, as if she had nothing whatsoever to do with its creation.

"It's not ugly," Fiona said stoutly. "It's just not in accordance with the social norms."

I cracked up.

"This is Minnesota," Rob said, "where people wear orange hats with duck flaps. A scarf like this is entirely within the social norms."

"Well, it IS a little odd to wear it at the dinner table," I pointed out.

Rob smiled. "I'm sitting here at the dinner table wearing a knitted scarf, and there's another person wearing a hoodie, and another person wearing a bathrobe, and another wearing jewelry, dressed to go out."

"And as the person wearing the bathrobe," Fiona said, "let me just say that I'm really enjoying it. This is the first day I haven't had to go anywhere for the past several weeks."

I snickered. "This is SO going on Livejournal."

Comments

[thenines.livejournal.com]

The only thing that would make this post better would be photographic evidence. :o)

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

and family snippets like this is what makes your journal Fabulous!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

That is a wonderful family dinner. It makes me want to go look up our old dinner-table snippets that I posted before everyone grew up and/or moved out. So it's good that you tagged it for your future enjoyment.

Also, what a great dad.

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I wonder how he'd do with, say, a Dr. Who scarf? (a la Tom Baker, that is. I don't remember if any of the other Dr. Whos wore such a scarf, but Tom Baker was the Doctor I was most familiar with.)

We are snowed in. We live in a place that hardly ever sees snow. Moved here by choice after growing up with Midwest winters. And here we have somewhere near a foot of snow on the ground and more coming down. Amazing!

(and so we had someone in p.j.s at our dinner table tonight, too... but nobody dressed to go out)

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have knit many of those scarves . . . . :)