Monday, November 29, 2004

every little thing he buys is magic



At Target today I made one of those once-a-decade purchases: a padlock. I expected that the padlocks would all be the familiar silver-with-black-dials. I had forgotten that one of the signal features of our age is that every mundane thing you can buy now offers you the opportunity for self-expression and panache. I ended up buying the red padlock scanned for your perusal above; the runner up was regular silver but with a deep purple dial.

1 comment:

dorotha said...

i think this is a very pretty lock, but i am quite suprised that you didn't go for the purple.