09 July 2011

Red: The Colour Of Danger

I hate red undies and I am forced to wear them 20% of the time.
  
They always put a red pair into those packets of five. I’ve never seen a packet without red in it and I’m not going to throw them away because of some long held dislike, that’s madness. But, I do wish that it was possible to find a set that didn’t have the ghastly colour.

I blame Australian world champion Formula 1 driver, Alan Jones for my red undies hatred. He was rising to prominence as a motor sport legend when I was a kid and he had one of those disproportionately formative effects. He was being interviewed before an important race and when asked what rituals he went through beforehand, he answered he would be wearing his lucky, red undies.

That was quite simply one of the rudest, crudest, most scandalous things I had ever heard on telly and put me dead off. The unease lasts to this day.

1 comment:

  1. do you think fanta pants are drawn to red jocks? or is that much red bad feng shui?

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