Friday, while I was making my way to the office, there was a man walking down the street the opposite way. And guess what, he was wearing a monocle! I saw a man wearing a monocle! Who wears a monocle? I know, when I moved here I thought there would be loads of men wearing monocles, but no, it’s a deceiving stereotype. Some of them wear tweed, some smoke pipes, lots carry big umbrellas with a hook handle, but nobody wears monocles. Except this guy! Wow. It was exhilarating. The monocle was on a cord that was around his neck, and it just stayed in place in his eye socket. Awesome. Now I just need to see someone wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat, and I’ll feel like I’ve seen everything.

Incidentally, the very same day I was wearing a new shirt. My new shirt has French cuffs, which means I need to wear cufflinks. So there I was studded out with my silver cufflinks and my new shirt… and my new sneakers. HA! Who wears cufflinks and sneakers?!? It didn’t notice the combination until I was halfway to work. I bet monocle man is writing in his blog about how he saw a guy wearing cufflinks and sneakers. “I was on my way to the cobbler when I was struck by the strangest sight. Unless my glass onion deceived me, I saw a chap wearing both cufflinks and trainers. Who’d have guessed that such a prosperous combination was possible?”

In case you were wondering my new sneakers are Converse One Stars. Yeah, they’re not good enough to be given all the stars, just one. On a scale of zero stars to all stars, my sneakers score a paltry one. My cuff links, on the other hand, are stylin’.