I was in the office kitchen just now and there was some woman there who looks like she is a sales visitor from one of our geographically obscure offices. Anyway, she is talking to some guy, and mid conversation, she pulls some device from her dress - the implication is that she was storing it in her boobs. What is this thing anyway? Cell phone? Looks like a pager, but this is not the 1990s. After fondling the device for a bit, she calmly places it back in her “personal storage location”. All this happened mid conversation. She is wearing a kind of low cut sun dress type outfit, which again, is unusual for people here.
Anyway, this episode made me shudder a bit. Is this normal? Maybe there is some aspect of US culture that I haven’t yet gotten used to…
It’s common, but moreso when chicas are out with their girls in heels, tiny purses, and skimpy dresses demanding that they store the wad of cash, dl, credit card, and cell on the rack. I think it’s pretty classless, but we’d need the infallible FrankArbia to confirm if this is HCB mannerisms or not.
From a practical standpoint, I think this can only be executed if she’s overweight. Those in the thread that only accept it if done by skinny people are just theorizing.
She doesn’t have to be overweight, but does have to have a sizable storage cabinet. Granted, outside the porn industry and Spanish-language soap operas it is actually quite rare, sadly, that a sizable storage cabinet sits a top a slender base.
Was she wearing a suit jacket or blazer? sometimes reaching for those inside pockets on womens jackets can look like she’s reaching somewhere else.
Of course, sometimes women do thiss to be provocative, but it’s not particularly professional. Maybe she was trying to flirt with him.
EDIT: I actually have a FitBit pedometer (http://www.fitbit.com/one), which I like very much. It looks a bit like a very small pager, and I keep it in my trouser pocket. I know that they say that women can attach it to their bra if they are wearing something that doesn’t have pockets… …maybe it was that?
She was not wearing a jacket - just the dress. She was not talking to me, so I was clearly not the target of any flirtation. If I was, I would be deeply disturbed.
It might be considered cheating to attach a pedometer to the “chest storage” area. The pedometer might record additional oscillations, since every step you take could result in an inequal number of oscillations of certain body parts.
I guess it wouldn’t be a pedometer if it were a chest located one: it would be a “mamometer”.
However, the device does a pretty good job of figuring out your steps no matter where you put it. I’ve held it in my hand and watched the numbers turn over. It’s pretty neat.
^do you find this thing useful in any way? I can’t think of how knowing the exact number of steps I made today would be helpful. It could even be bad for you by providing you with an excuse not to hit the gym: “you’ve made 2x the usual number of steps today - time to get some deserved rest, you fitness beast!”
It tells you more than just the number of steps. It tells you how many floors you’ve climbed, how many calories you’ve burned by walking/running around, how many linear miles/kms you’ve gone while wearing it. It synchonizes to your phone via bluetooth and uploads your info to a website. (The website also tells the device how tall you are, how old you are, how much you weigh, so it figures out how much you are burning by how many steps you take per minute). It will even trade data with sites where you log the food you eat so you can figure out if you are over or under budget.
I find the thing pretty useful, actually. I’m not quite so sure how accurate the estimates are, but they are still useful in a more active/less active sense.
Larger women have plenty of body storage places. I don’t know where I heard the story (probably on this forum and probably from Ohai I suspect) about some masseuse who was giving a massage to a very large woman and a full size cookie fell out of one of her fat rolls.