I just realized that the word “swipe” has lost all of it’s glamour, mojo, sexiness, swagger or whatever. I, like most people, enjoy using the word ‘swipe’ to mean steal, thieve, take, pilfer, purloin, SNATCH, ;filch, lift, rob, nab, pinch, glom. I had never noticed until this very hour that the word has now almost entirely lost that meaning altogether. Now we use it more for describing what we do with our visa cards at the atm & Redbox or using our touchscreen electronics. Not only has someone else already noticed but someone has even added it to the many dictionaries available today.

Swipe: pass (a swipe card) through an electronic device designed to read and process the information encoded on it.
move (one’s finger) across a touchscreen in order to activate a function.
“simply swipe a finger across the phone’s display screen to switch to another program”

   and in more detail than I had thought of.  This “swipe” epiphany hit me today when I said ” I swiped this Maxim magazine from the waiting area at work because it’s features Candice Swanepoel”
   I couldn’t believe that Candice was the cover girl and main article (with delicious photos) and even declared “the most desirable woman in the world”. Candice had been my favorite angel since Charlie’s Angel Kris Munroe. That episode with the white bikini was permanently imprinted on my young brain. I saw Kris as the perfect everything. Six years ago I was again struck by a perfect angel in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue. I didn’t realize other people thought she was as amazing as I did. I never had a thing for VS models but she too sported a white bikini and was a divine creature. An angel. I never ever looked as good as either angel in my white bikini. It must be amazing to walk around that perfect for awhile. It does all eventually fade though. Have you seen what time does to even the most beautiful people? One day even Mila Kunis will look like Betty White. Time swipes the angels wings