Monday, June 9, 2008

totally stupid brown shirt

live, laugh, see, touch, taste SMELL, love ... that's what the totally stupid brown shirt said.
I have a "thing" for used stuff. Goodwill, Value Village and occasionally St. Vincent dePaul, except for that leather-like chair Neal brought home during one of his lunch hours, though I did laugh heartily when he leaned just a little too far back and fell oh so slowly and completely backwards. I nearly died laughing. NO, I don't so much go for the vinyl; more the value.
I love a deal.
I love vintage.
The Oxford Dictionary defines vintage this way:
of a past season

ok, we're talking waaaay past season, as in "was this stupid brown shirt seasoned?" Like, "did the owner of this totally stupid brown shirt ever bathe?"
and, "how did I not smell this at the store?" (easy answer, because everything in a used clothing store smells the same; like fart)

so, I was watching a movie last night, smelling my pits occasionally at first and then with much fervor later, and I finally had to just take the whole dumb thing OFF and shower and wash IT, only to discover (after the second washing) that it was, indeed, not me but, rather, the totally stupid brown shirt, emphasis on the SMELL word embroidered upon it, that completely encompasses the definition of the word vintage ...

way, WAY of a past season.

6 comments:

Fabricated Goddess said...

ugh....I had one of those too. NOT good. and you are right, impossible to detect in a thrift store.

lol, veery close to the pubic foam....veeerryy close.

Anonymous said...

So are you saying that this was like a scratch-and-sniff shirt, or what?

Anonymous said...

Memories of Seinfeld...

Anonymous said...

that is the funniest thing ever. I've never smelled you, just to know. Even Chris snorted when I read it to him. that's some good stuff.

Mummo said...

Wow! that reminds me of the late 60's. We actually had scratch and sniff t-shirts. Of course we also had the ever-popular tie-dyed items too. :-)

Lauren said...

LOL, this gave me a good chuckle today. :o)

You know, you can soak it in a bucket with baking soda and it will tremendously improve its scratch-and-sniffedness. (My new word for the day!)