[One lousy photo from NYC before I changed for dinner in the backseat: Joie boots + DKNY sweater + J.Crew separates + YSL bag.]
Without sounding like I’m regurgitating that scene from You’ve Got Mail, I should just say that I’m no good at thinking on my toes. Like that time at my last job my manager pulled me out of my office and said, “Can I see you for a sec?” then once out in the hallway said, “I just have to say, it looks like… well, we’re going to have to let you go. Only kidding!” Looking back, you know, you can think of about 100 great things to say. “Ha, ha! Turns out I was right about you… you’re evil.”
Or the time I walked out of a bar in Georgetown with a beer in my hand and was handcuffed to a tree by a bicycle cop. There are a million smooth ways to play off the fact you just accidentally walked out of a bar still holding your drink. I couldn’t come up with one.
Or the time an interviewer asked me what I was doing to “go green” and I wished I said “forgoing lightbulbs for the highly flammable properties of endangered whale flesh.” General debates. Off the cuff remarks. Remembering to use my bicycle bell. Glorious comebacks.
Thinking on my feet.
So, it should come as no surprise that I wouldn’t bother to make sure my fly was zipped up in this one, single photo we managed to take… my gift to you!
-Carey
I have a pair of boots I got for my birthday that are pretty similar, but they’re by Rockport. I’m obsessed with the tie-up style going on right now.
ha! i must admit, i had to zoom in just to see how bad it really was. LOL
You got cuffed to a tree AND posted a picture with your fly down?!?
I’m jealous.hehe
Xoxo,
Carrie
It’s a fly-down-epidemic and it’s flurrying coincidence. Thursday of last week, I was in Georgetown walking out of Club Monaco when I got nailed in the head with a wild umbrella. Mind you, I was walking with my own umbrella slightly tipped forward to avoid wind & rain and it still managed to not hit my umbrella or my arm – just my forehead and nose. Later, with a slight black eye and two glasses of wine in me, I texted my friend to tell her of my rainy day assault. She sent back a response that she was manhandled by Paul Blart at XGates who demand her identification when she looked down to get her id from her bag she realized she was walking around with a “shirt-tail woody.”
CHEERS TO YOU CARRIE!
I admire your ability to put yourself out there for better or for worse! Regardless of the zipper, you look cute!!!
-Lex
Ahaha, i thought I was seeing things! And then I said, “eh, it’s only down a little.”
I’m very jealous, but I hope you had a great time in the city! (I need a YSL or vintage Gucci like that. Was it ebay?)
I owe you an email, btw 🙂
it was from Saks in 2005 I believe?? I have to get it cleaned SO badly.
it was such a quick trip… couldn’t even get Rob to take be below 44th. No Isabel 🙁 Miss you. Life is crazy. So much to update! xo
HAHA! Peeing in my pants. Is there some small part of you that thinks Rob didn’t tell you on purpose?
but you look so fantastic that all the gals in manhattan will start walking around with their flies down.
love that you were arrested by a bicycle cop…hahah.
x
I just stumbled across your blog and totally admire the fact that you posted a pic with your zipper down, but that could be the norm for you, not sure! I love the concept of your blog- it is the first one that I think my man and I would both like to read! The Judith Krantz reference was very funny. Love, A
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you kill me! I once threw up on a tree and was then handcuffed and thrown in a cop car…we lead such similar lives! LOL! 🙂
oops! public intox… bad girl. Turns out this guy was super nice, we chatted until like 5 am at the station. He was literally making an example of me because nearby residents had gotten to be so annoyed with patrons at that bar coming out and being noisy and rude at night. I was literally doing nothing wrong but got targeted. He felt bad. We were chatting later and he was even crying to me about his ex-wife… while a prostitute sat chained to a wall in the next room. Very touching moment!