A Tale of Fashion
“Did you hear about the latest fashion?” she said.
“Let me guess,” he said, “Could it be a tuxedo?”
“Wow,” she said, “how intuitive you are. Of course, it’s not a tuxedo. Everyone wears those.”
“It’s our native costume,” he replied.
“That is why it’s not a new fashion. This has to do with your feet.”
“What about our feet? We don’t wear anything on our feet.”
“That’s true, but don’t your feet always get cold?” she said.
“A…We walk on ice.” was his reply.
“That’s true, but what if you could put something on your feet so they wouldn’t be cold?”
“And how would we do that? We don’t have any hands.”
“These slip on, you just put your feet into them,” she said, getting a bit frustrated. “What do our kids do when they get cold?”
“They put their cold feet on top of ours?” he replied questioningly. Their feet stay warm, and ours get cold on top and bottom.”
“Their feet do stay warm. So what if you could have something warm to put your feet on?”
“I guess that would work, but where would you find something like that?”
She replied, “It just so happens that I found an open crate by the place where all the ships come in filled with these foot warmers. Everybody’s wearing them now.”
“Seriously,” he said, “and the people there don’t mind.”
“It doesn’t seem so. They all laugh and take pictures of us.”
“They always do that. Why are they laughing?”
She said, “There is a problem with wearing these foot warmers.”
“And that would be?” he questioned
“They are very slippery when we walk. Oh yeah…they tend to slip off when we dive to get supper. I think that’s why they laugh.”
“I think I’ll pass on the ‘slippers,’ if you know what I mean.”
“You’re so old-fashioned,” she said. “Get with the times. You’re only a penguin once you know.”
“I know, and I like uniformity, not fashion. A penguin is what a penguin is. Let’s leave it at that.”
“Suit yourself,” she said.
“ I will. There’s nothing wrong with a tuxedo,” he replied, “look around and you’ll see.”
