The saying "all good things must come to an end" couldn't be any more true than for a solid retail item.
Case in point #1: Victoria's Secret underwear. Stop changing your product! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!! They were fine!! They now decided to put these little rivets of lace or whatever on the inseam/leg part and it's so FUCKING annoying. Seriously.
Please, VS, revoke this change immediately.
Case in point #2: Good flipflops. No, not your old navy/walmart rubbery ones. Good solid, decent looking, good for wearing with a sundress - flipflops.
Steve Madden in 2007 had the BEST leather flipflop. Super comfortable. White, Black or Brown. Staple colors. The "Cayman"
I love this shoe. When they went on clearance, I bought FOUR pairs! Two brown, two black.
Well, they lasted me some time and my last black pair finally bit the dust (thong part came apart after accidentally stepping in a puddle of water). And I have one brown pair that's in good shape.
I've tried so very hard to replace this shoe style and can't find them online anymore :(
Case in point #3: Good casual black zipup. Any chick needs a black dress and a black zipup. Black zipups look cute with shorts, jeans, workout pants. It's just a staple item. I go nuts when mine starts to unravel somewhere. RETAILERS: WHY IS THERE ARE A SHORTAGE OF CASUAL SIMPLE BLACK ZIPUPS?! Now when I find one I really like, I stock up for the next season.
Always will eventually need to replace any clothing item, these days nothing is made to last and washing/drying destroys clothing. I can't hang up anything wet, I don't like how it turns out to feel like wearing cardboard. No cardboard attire for me, thank you.
Anyway..
I had to go to the hospital tonight to pick up my patient assignment and experienced 3 cases of White Coat Phenomenon.
Walking into the hospital...
Guard: Good evening doctor
Me: Uh.. I'm a nursing student..
(HELLO LOOK AT THE EMBLEM ON MY COAT & NAME TAG!)
Guard: *gives puzzled look*
Me: They make us wear a coat to be professional when not in clinical duty...
Guard: Have a nice evening.
Walking through hall to elevator..
Random visitor: Excuse me doctor! How do I get to StreetWomanCantFind exit?
Me: (racking brain to remember way around hospital) I'm pretty sure you take this hallway, make a right and it's right there..
Random visitor: Thanks! Have a great night!
(Sure..)
Finally on the unit and I'm staring at the whiteboard figuring out what patients are still on the unit...
Nurse behind me: Can I help you doctor?
Me: Oh! I'm a nursing student, here for my assignment.. my patient was d/c so I need to pick up a new assignment..
Nurse: (examines white coat, examines nametag, examines emblem on white coat, finally looks up at my face) uhh... okay.. let's see if we can help you find a new assignment.
Ok so I get that they don't want us to show up in scrubs on days we aren't actively involved in clinical work, but the White Coat Phenomenon is way to out of hand!
People instantly assume white coat = physician. I typically think the same thing but is it fair to assume attire equals who you are??
I don't want to embarrass a kind guard wishing me a good evening, but I also don't want to tote around with people thinking I am a doctor.
Whenever I correct someone, I have to go through explaining my school makes us do this... so on so forth....
When I left, the guard still gave me a puzzled look.
And then a visitor and I had that awkward tango about who gets to walk through the door first and the woman almost cowarded down because of the White Coat.
I let her go first of course but she did give a puzzled look as to why a girl who looks no older than the age of 15 (damn you young genes...) is sporting a White Coat.
Interesting night.
Well.. these books won't study themselves, unfortunately.
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