Day 23: Make-Shift Things

Mom always used to say, when your options are limited you need to think outside the box. Granted, I don't think she would have ever advised me to literally think outside the box, as it was always simply a clichéd metaphor for anything is possible. But I must say, it takes some special kind of innovation, if we shall graciously call it that for the time being, to string rope from one light pole to another and hang clothes on it. What makes me love this picture more than just the idea of hanging clothes outside on a make-shift clothes line is the fact that there seem to be only 2 or 3 shirts, at most, hanging there, in the middle of what seems to be a fairly long clothes line. For all I know it's not really a laundry line at all, and they are not drying their clothes. They could have had themselves a garage (or rather table in front of concrete wall) sale and simply forgot to bring in those shirts. I don't know, I'm not a doctor. But I can tell you that even for Korea this seems a bit out of place. Also mind you that I did not go into some rural district and comb the streets for this; this picture was taken in Shinchon, a rather populated place with lots of college students, food, drinking establishments, and other stuff. In other words, there is a good chance that these clothes could be stole come morning, or could be used to clean up a certain 'mess' one of the really drunk ones may make.