When Receiving a Medal from the U.S. President, Lose the Shades, Dude!

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If you wish to look like a movie or rock star or someone who escaped Bellevue, wear the sunglasses indoors; but when the President is honoring you, lose them

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One of the more tedious social habits, perhaps more grating than the misuse of social networking, is wearing sunglasses not just when they are supposed to be worn (outdoors in glaring sun) but also wearing them indoors. As best I can glean, people who wear sunglasses indoors are either making a social statement (“I’m very important and these glasses prove it”) or they are to build a wall between the shades wearer and those around them (“You can’t see where I’m looking and I might be looking at you”).

Whatever the reason, by most standards up until recently, such person sporting cheaters indoors would either be classified as out of touch with common courtesy (which, admittedly, is in its death throes) or the individual is mentally loopy……or both.

So it was discomforting to see a photo of the great Bob Dylan receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom recently with a pair of shades on. I am unaware of any medical reason he wore such so the assumption is that it was part of his wardrobe. And perhaps it was inevitable as this great 1960′s anti-establishment icon had to show his rebellious bones given that he was at this ceremony restrained in a tuxedo (must’ve taken several hours to corner him, sedate him and encase him in what a child of the 60s would consider a fashion iron-maiden), .

But receiving the Medal of Freedom and being invited to the White House, regardless of who the President is, seems to call for a higher standard of decorum. After all, it is a very rare honor limited to very few human beings.

Put quite simply, when receiving a medal from the U.S. President, lose the shades, dude!

-I.M. Windee


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