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So I bought a tie-dye shirt for the first time in decades and while walking to the grocery store wearing it, a guy comes up to me, tells me he loves me and asks he if he can hug me (I politely declined). Yesterday, a kid asked to borrow some rolling paper (I don't smoke).
This sort of thing never happens to me ordinarily. Is it the shirt?
Suich
(10,642 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I'm actually on vacation in Tucson at the moment. Back home in Seattle, I see so many of these shirts I can't imagine them raising an eyebrow.
Hell, maybe I just look like a local celebrity. People do seem to stare a bit.
There is no neighborhood in the greater Seattle area where wearing tie-dye would even be noticed!
Lucky you being in Tucson...it's getting cold here!
A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Other than the tie-dye shirt, I could probably pass for a Republican candidate for office. I'm clean-shaven with fairly short hair. No Jerry Garcia, me.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)you didn't make it?
Damn drug store hippies.
(lol)
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)It was an impulse purchase, I swear... {hangs head in shame}
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I was just looking through my closet and found a Tie Dye Jimi Hendrix shirt my wife bought me some years ago.
Not only did I not make it, I never saw him in concert. Ack! I found a Led Zeppelin '77 tour shirt too! At least I was high school in 77 so I kinda had a shot at seeing Zep but I was only 6 or 7 when Hendrix died. All my other band shirts are from actual shows I saw.
My house is glass and I got a pocket full of rocks.
Kali
(55,007 posts)it's just Tucson
nolabear
(41,960 posts)Can't wear it for the actual Deadheads trying to bribe it off me. I must admit, it is a thing of beauty.
unionworks
(3,574 posts)It was this electric green and yellow thing that just sceamed at you. It was. Fully capable of inducing flashbacks. In a hurry one day, I wore it to work instead of my navy blue twill workshirt. I was driving an electric train on rails, serious heavy equipment, when our h.r. guy walked past. He was a former naval aviator, a very strack crew cut type. Hhe stopped in his tracks and stared slackjawed at the shirt for a good 20 seconds. (No, I didn't get in trouble )
applegrove
(118,642 posts)hanging off my every word and move once they saw it. Seriously it does matter what your uniform is. People do make assumptions. I know the way I dress is hippylike and in a way a way to keep uptight assholes away from me. Though I can't quite say i've ever got the positive reaction you did.