Glove Issues

I love gloves, I really do. I mean they're so simple, but we'd all cry horrendously if we didn't have them. I wouldn't call them a luxury though, a woman in the shop that I work at said, 'they're quite a luxury if they've got fur inside or leather'. Well, no. They are Glove 2.0. Essentially we've just upgraded them, but they are so insignificant in our daily lives that we fail to notice the things we've 'upgraded' for longer than 10 seconds. Take itunes for example, you wait a few seconds for it to download the new glittery software and then you don't care because it all looks the same in the grand scale of Apple upgrades. I only noticed when I upgraded my old computer's itunes; it was something like 3 years old and it then took an hour to download and I was gobsmacked at how much some things change in a matter of years that we've become accustomed to. It was alien to me.

But back to gloves, the holy (hopefully not holey) hand warmers. I think that you should be able to do all the things you do without gloves on, like climb trees, ride a llama or buy your shopping or whatever fills your time, to do them with the same capability with gloves on. This is what I expect to happen. If I climb a tree, I want the same amount of grip, strength in my hands and maybe less splinters, when I wear gloves. It's only fair.

It turns out that you can't drink a litre of milkshake whilst walking and wearing gloves. I thought it was possible. I mean, it's possible with a bottle of water and gloves. Not problem at all. The *SCIENCE WORD* friction is at equilibrium for me. It's beautifully safe in my hands. But milkshake? It's staple part of my diet for strong teeth and shiny bones and stuff. Why would they deprive me of this? It kept slipping out of my hands to the point where I was walking home from my local supermarket holding it like a baby. I'm telling you now, I'm glad I didn't see anyone I knew so I didn't have to explain why I was clenching a litre of strawberry milkshake to my chest for dear life in fear it would escape the safety of my arms and spill onto the pavement.

There are some things that you'd only discover if you try some thing new, and this would be a perfect example.