Is Your Zipper up or down?

Have you ever known that a zipper is one of the most hilarious devices in human history? Zipper was invented by Whitcomb L. Judson in 1890 and used to be called "clasp-locker". I guess when he invented his zipper he must have had a very deep thought about carefulness, neatness, privacy and dignity. Yes, I never imagine that a zipper has played important roles in the life of a person.


Have you also ever heard a story about the ex American president, Bill Clinton who lost 25% of the people's votes in one of the States just because he forgot to close his zipper? What a shame! Even, one of the local television networks has gone through the zipper and the fly and caught.... the grey undergarments.....of Bill. The next day after what happened, a big headline appeared on the local newspapers : " A man's dignity lies on his zipper". Aha... Another response came to mock, " You've got your fly set for "Monica" instead of Hillary". What a sensational President!


Despite all, I am of the opinion that a zipper is a symbol of a harmony between a man and a woman. This idea just hatches after I read what Judson defined his invention:

"each link of each chain is provided both with a male and female coupling part, and when the
chains are coupled together, the female part of each link on one chain is engaged by the male part of a link on the other chain."

Amazing, isn't it? How a zipper travels into the territory of gender.....


Another story comes from a friend who has a bedroom war with her husband.The husband and wife usually exchange words and make private language. Day after day after day.... Until one day...the husband broke the codes. He arrived from nowhere, sent home, so ruffled. Then, he told her his connubial secrets..... the secrets that a zipper might tell...Yes, his zipper that permitted the knifeblade stabbed the heart of a lady. The bedroom war began since then...

I suddenly comprehend that life is a zipper. Sometimes you can control it, but sometimes it is out of control. When it is, there will be shrieks, groans and laments. A question appears like a venom: Is your zipper up or down?