Almost Pointless

[mishalak]

I have a mild problem with cold. My fingers and toes get easily chilled probably due to how little body fat I have and the thinness of my extremities. So while I'm as butch as any Coloradan, I can't help but be a bit sensitive to the cold.

When my family took up downhill skiing I was always the one to head inside first. My dad would always be encouraging me to stay out a bit longer, but after two or three ski runs I would head in to warm up for half an hour. I can understand where he was coming from, try to get good value for the increasingly expensive ski lift tickets, but it sometimes made me reluctant to go.

I keep on intending to get some Bob Cratchet gloves. Something to wear around work with just my fingertips exposed so that my hands keep a bit warmer. It would be really excellent if I could find something stylish as well as a bit warm. I don't need heavy gloves or anything; after all I'm in of doors. I think that even some leather would be enough to slow the heat loss from my hands.

So if anyone sees some cool gloves without fingertips, or even some gloves that would still look cool with the fingertips cut off, do let me know! I'll pay for purchase and shipping.

Maybe I should stop by to see my friend Carlos. He owns a store called CJ's Leathers and he made that wonderfully cool Farscape vest for me. He or maybe that goth store I've heard about might have something good.

Comments

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Dunno about gloves, but I use a pair of mittens that are designed to have the part that goes over the fingers fold back when desired. I can see if Marshall Fields still carries them, if you want.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about it and I'm not sure these would work. But I suppose I could try stopping in the local equivelent of Marshall Fields.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

I don't know about "stylish", but I've seen tons of fingertipless gloves in surplus stores, building contractor catalogs, and bicycle catalogs. Try medical supply shops as well - a friend here at work is sporting a rather fetching black spandexlike stretchy fingertip-free glove on one hand for her arthritis.

(For goodness sake, don't forget the battered top hat, black duster, and clanky boots.)

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

...and perhaps a pungently perfumed long skinny smokable thingie, as well. Especially if you're out of doors.

Let's get dressed up like this and go downtown and offer people money.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

What, what? Offer people money? I don't really have that much to give away. Nothing atall, as a matter of fact. I'd rather get dressed up and go raise some money for my fan fund. "Help a science fiction fan in need sir?"

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Two looming, black-clad, fingerless-glove-wearing men clanking about waving stinking cheroots around, coughing and hacking and incoherently offering grimy dollar bills to well-dressed businesspeople...

...you think we'd really lose money? I think we'd make some.