2006-03-31 - 5:07 a.m.
When did doing up one's pants become so complicated? Not that I necessarily want to live in a world of elastic waist-bands, as that way lies the dangerous world of eternal track pants and wearing pajamas to the coffee shop, but really, what was wrong with a simple zipper-plus-button combination? The latest pair of pants I bought features a zipper, then a secret button that has to be buttoned up on the inside of the waist band, plus a weird tab-thing that then has to be connected to yet another internal button, and then another tab externally that has to be fastened via a double hook-and-eye arrangement.
Not only does this take a while, but add a drink or two and the complexity of this arrangement becomes a de facto chastity belt.
