leather

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For Christmas, my wife got me, along with some

other very nice things, a LEATHER COAT! And I'm

thinking, omigod -- that poor cow!<br>The coat is as cool

as they get -- kind of preaged looking, longish.

Totally "dude". So I, being very open, honest,

straightforward (and stupid) say, sort of incredulously, "You got

me a leather coat?" My wife, in one of her frequent

attacks of amazing and total egolessness, says, "well,

you know, if you don't like it, we could take it back

-- it's no big deal." But later she gets me to try

it on; exclaims how great it looks; what a great

bargain it was, etc. <br>And of course I go back later to

obsessing about the cow; could I ever be caught dead

wearing it; not wanting to give energy to all the cow

killers in the world, etc. (But, this cow, remember, is

dead already.) And, what's the point of doing yoga and

all, if I'm going to walk around wearing a leather

coat? (By the way, my wife is no stranger to yoga and

has probably forgotten more than I'll ever

know.)<br>So I'm thinking about it. Any reactions?

<br><br>P.S. One possible compromise solution -- keep the coat

but don't wear it much, or at all.