Am I The Only One...

...who finds shoulder pads funny? People wearing them look utterly ridiculous in my opinion. Ok, so it's a rare sight, but sometimes my Mum wears clothes that have them in, and suddenly her shoulders increase in height so that they join the neck about half-way up. Except there is, of course, always a slight slump before the garment reaches the neck, so the the shoulder joint itself seems to stick up more than the rest of your shoulder, like one of those little wooden people that artists use when they can't afford a model.

Every time I see them I instantly break out in a severe case of smirk-itis. This will generally spread like wild-fire until eventually I just have to laugh. It makes it hard to have a serious conversation with my Mum when she's walking around knocking things off the tops of cupboards with her shoulders.