Bodacious Boomer

This morning on the Today show I heard that a man was arrested for being nude in his own home. This topic sparked a bit of debate. Should that have happened? Now in the interest of accuracy I guess I should say that this naked person was seen by someone who was walking by his house. The man in question was not doing anything of a sexual nature. On the Today show this morning, they said he was in the window for “awhile”. However, after reading the article, I would say that was not completely accurate.

The man in question said he was going to the kitchen to make coffee wearing only flip-flops at 8:30 a.m.. If you click on the video in the article you can see a video of the house. It would seem to me that unless he was plastered right up to the glass that it’d be pretty hard to see him in there. Many people I know have flashed someone inadvertently at sometime in their life. However, I think it’s usually someone within your own home who gets the eyeful. It’s not usually pretty, but it happens.

Since I no longer have small children I really don’t have a problem with this; especially if the guy looked like Giles Marini (the sexy neighbor from the Sex and the City movie). However, knowing my luck, the gentleman in the buff would look like Fred Mertz.

I’ve heard that some people like to clean while naked. Somehow harsh chemicals around bare skin, especially skin that’s usually covered by clothes, just doesn’t seem like a good idea. Why would people want to do this? Are they afraid of getting bleach on their clothes? Wouldn’t they be more afraid of getting bleach on their skin?  Am I missing something here?

Back in my college days, when 1 computer would fill a room, my date and I went to party at a friend’s apartment. (We’d not been there before). After we sat down we noticed there were Polaroid’s (how old am I?) of them everywhere. Normally, that would be fine. However, they were NAKED. They weren’t doing anything in the photos- Thank God; but they were naked, in all types of poses. Naked photos propped up on the toilet, naked photos in the frig. Thank goodness the photos were taken before the subjects in the photos were anywhere that cold. (The whole shrinkage  thing, you know.) I was only in my early 20′s at that time, but I found it very disconcerting. I guess I wasn’t as much into the whole “freedom” thing as I thought. I faked a migraine and we made a quick exit.

At my age now and in my current condition I think I’d be more comfortable naked if I were upside down. Of course since holding my head down gives me a headache, I’m not going to do that anytime soon anyway. The whole subject of nakedness is a very personal one. I once stayed for a couple of weeks at the home of a woman I met in the balloon club. When I got there, I discovered that she was a nudist and all her furniture was covered in fake fur. It wouldn’t have been so bad but the fake fur looked matted- Yikes! She said I could be naked too if I wanted. I said thanks, but I wasn’t really into naked- not that there was anything wrong with that. When I was there, I stayed in my room- which only had a bed and a dresser. To each their own, I guess.

Here’s a discussion on good naked vs. bad naked-