April 16, 2013

On the street outside of  3080 Nostrand Boulevard

This is a very spiffy glove. It is designed seriously. Nothing knit glove lets build a snowman about this glove. Nothing "Oh Susie let's you and I take a stroll in the chilly afternoon down to Coney Island to watch the conie.s"  (Coney - A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)). No this is a serious glove with a mission. Well not a mission such as the Spanish built throughout the areas they conquered and then treated the inhabitants like kreplach. Not one of those places Zorro rode into with a shoulder wound begging brother Reinaldo to nurse him back to health. Not that kind of mission. While we're at it not the sort of mission Capt. Kirk embarked upon as the guys in New Men's Dorm at Shimer College gathered on a couch wondering which little speck the Enterprise would spring from in the vast distances of space. Certainly not the following sort of mission.....

 No...this was a mission of repair of some sort. Something that needed to fixed. Or picked up and rested firmly in the palm without fear of slippage. No...friends. This is a glove worthy of respect and admiration. 

I have tried to determine who made it. The name "Safeguard" is one that anyone would want to use on anything. Gloves, fences, locks (not lox . My folks used to buy belly lox. This was not, as I remember, as salty as regular lox. All the cream cheese in the world couldn't get rid of that salty assault on your taste buds.). I so far have not been able to find a page or website devoted to these gloves. The type is very available. Knitted on the back and rubberized where the grip goes down. I am guessing if I found the factory that probably makes all of this sort of glove I could order a few thousand dozen of gloves with my initials on them. TED..Tough-Energetic-Determined. Yeah man. That would be a hell of a glove. Oh wouldn't it be gloverly?