Ever since May when it started getting warm I have been working on my tan during my lunchbreak at work. Everyone at work knows about my nudity. It started off right outside with my just my t-shirt off. Later I moved to the alfalfa field ahielded by my car and a dumpster, and started removing my pants or shorts. During Nude Recreation Awareness week I finally took it all off. So every now and then I will totally disrobe, but I usually have something on. If my boss asks me if I was laying out back naked and I had my socks on, can I truthfully say yes? I think so. What are your thoughts?
Good question. I have wondered about it myself. I guess, technically, you are not naked, but I think it might still be a little deceptive because of what people consider naked (exposing "privates").
Life is symantics. When Marilyn Monroe posed nude and reporters asked her if she had had anything on, she reportedly replied, "yes, I had the radio on." And who can forget Bill Clinton's masterful parsing of words with "it depends on what your definition of is, is."
So, with Vinny's concern about the boss and honesty, I would not depend on the example of Marilyn Monroe or Bill Clinton but have my own objective, biblically correct and God honoring response.
"I hope, Mr. BossMan," says Vinny, "it doesn't offend you if I exercise my 1st amendment right to freedom of religion as long as I'm not doing it on company time and company expense. I use my lunch hour to pray and communicate to my God and Creator to honor Him as an expression of my reverence and in a position that validates who He is. I combine lunch time with worship and expressing my religous freedom per the 1st amendment."
I think wearing sox complies with both the letter and spirit of the law (although it will produce a strange tan line). How about a baseball cap? Preferable one of the boss's favorite team.
