jeans are jeans

My friend Nate was telling me earlier today about this kid that was at ihop on new years morning.

There were two guys and one, asian, came in a little later very excited about something that had just happened. He was telling his friends about his trip to buckle prior to their ihop outing. Asia went to buckle to find himself a new pair of jeans. He found the PERFECT pair. They were absolutely wonderful, he could not live without them!! BUT, they were too expensive! way too expensive. He decided to try them on, just to get a taste of the greatest pants he has ever laid eyes on. He proceeded to tell his other expensively troused friends about how wonderful these pants really were and that he tried them on and they were perfect, he even kept telling the sales person to convince him NOT to buy the jeans because they were just soo expensive. Well, while he was in these fancy bloomers his not-so-friend called. And he said the rudest thing anyone could ever say! The most degrading thing this young man has ever heard! I mean his friend was p-u-r-e e-v-i-l. His friend had said something so incredibly out of this world and penurious, he was enraged. His friend said "why don't you buy cheap jeans? jeans are jeans man". Asia was LIVID. He sarcastically said "thanks dad!" and hung up the phone. Jeans are jeans?! How coould someone say that????? But better yet...the meanest most senseless thing this young man has EVER heard, in his entire life, is JEANS ARE JEANS!?
If that was the meanest thing everyone has ever heard and/or said in their lives. The world would really be in quite some good shape! I would actually be the happiest person known to man if all anyone ever said was "jeans are jeans". There would be nothing like "oh those jeans make you look fat" or "you suck at everything". I'm going to try to make that the meanest thing I could say to someone...Life will be glorious.


Well the story isn't quite over. See Nate and I decided that if he were to be in our presence for a solid minute we could have him in tears. Lucky you asia, thanks for going to the mall the same time we did. We followed him into a store I didn't even know existed. It was full of true religions and any other brand of pants you can name. Nate and I had quite the time arguing over which pants to buy....and we made it very clear that jeans are NOT just jeans. They define a person. I mean show your backside some respect here people. Well, him and his friends left the store so we followed. I then approached this young man and asked "where did you get those jeans? my friend here really needs a new pair and just does not know where to look!" He simply smiled, said no words, just pointed....right there....Express. I should have known. I thanked him and yelled "nate, we have arrived".