Last Thursday I watched Robots. It’s a movie Ted had netflixed and then studiously ignored for several weeks due to a blurb dubbing it “heartwarming.” Thursday Ted had gone to BLUG and I was in between books and a wee bit bored so I decided to watch the movie. It was mildly entertaining. In the movie, the older “outmode” robots are in danger of being shipped to a metal chop shop and destroyed.

For the past month, I’ve been looking for a new pair of jeans that fit me. I have grown use to never finding jeans that are short enough for me. However, within the last year I’ve also had trouble finding jeans that are tight enough in the waist and loose enough in the hip area. Today I decided to wander up to the Loveland outlets and see if perhaps something up there would work. My first stop was at a Levi’s outlet store. I wandered over to the misses area and started browsing. A store employee found me and asked if there was anything in particular I wished to buy. I told her that I wanted jeans that fit me. She glanced over me and replied that I wouldn’t be able to find anything that fit me because I had the “classic” shape. I just needed to resign myself to buying jeans too big in the waist and wearing a belt. I felt like I had just entered the Robot world and was being told by the evil Mr. Ratchet that I was beeing outmoded.

Fortunately, the sales lady was wrong. I tried a couple other stores and finally ended up at the new Foleys in Loveland. Imagine my surprise when I tried on a pair of size 10 Levi jeans that fit me perfectly including the legnth. So, after about a month of looking, I finally found a pair of jeans that fit me. Somehow it doesn’t seem like it should have been this hard.