Idiot of the Day?

For my "Idiot of the Day" award I could just point to the guy in the middle but then I would have the same post 365 days a year.

The Idiot of the Day award is not going to the young women in the picture either. They are members of the Northwestern Universty Women's (duh) LaCrosse Team.

The Idiot of the Day award is going to AOL who decided this was a story newsworthy of their front page. A second nod goes to the Chicago Tribune who decided to make this a front page story.

(I must admit though, where I work I do think it is kind of tacky when the women wear flip flops to work. I haven't seen any of the guys wearing sandals yet)

The issue is their is now a big controversy because the women in the photo decided to wear flip flops to the white house. (Hmm, LaCrosse players in 'comfortable' shoes. Good for the stereotype ladies)

The story did of some good quotes like this one:

''Don't even ask me about the flip-flops,'' said the mother of player Aly Josephs. ''It mortified me.''
Lady, if the thought of your daughter wearing Flip Flops "mortifies" you I hope you can handle it when she tells you she's gay! I'm willing to go out on a limb and bet about %99.9 of parents with their daughters in college WISH the only thing that they had to worry about was their daughters wore a pair of flip flops to the Whitehouse.

Another good quote:
''Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,'' said Josephs, who wore a $16 brown pair with rhinestones.
You think she is having one of those moments where she wish she could take that quote back. We've all been there where we have said something and didn't realize til later how stupid we sounded at the time. If you never have experienced that feeling then you are basically saying stupid things all the time and just don't realize it.

I guess being male I've learned something here. $5 flip flops=bad-$16 flip flops=fashionable.

Another quote:
''I tried to think of something that would go well with my outfit and at the same time not be that uncomfortable. But at the same time not disrespect the White House.''

There's a fashion dilemma for you ladies. Next time you co-ordinate your outfit make sure you wear shoes that are 'respectful.' Leave your Rodney Dangerfield shoes at home in the closet.