Here is the eulogy for my favorite shirt. Oriole shirt. He is too sheer to be repurposed in any way and I will miss him terribly but it is finally time to say goodbye.
I got him in high school from my brother who had bought him for a dollar from a thrift store in Helper, UT. He then painstakingly picked off all the sequins leaving behind the glitter glue.
Oriole shirt has never let me down. He fit me so well, that's why he stayed around so long.
I took him to Jackson and cleaned the grease traps in him, hoping the stains wouldn't show up on the black.
When Ben and I started dating, Ben picked me up for breakfast and I was wearing Oriole Shirt and Ben, of course was wearing a Red Sox shirt. An old guy at the diner even commented on it.
Then there was the rec league softball game we went to watch and Camertle didn't have a shirt with numbers on the back so I took off Oriole Shirt (I had a long sleeve shirt on underneath) and gave it to her so she could play as #2.
Good times.
I wore him through pregnancies, through summer and winter, he has always been there in the drawer waiting for me.
So this is all the memorial I could come up with for Oriole Shirt. May we cherish his memory. If you have any good memories to share you may take this time to share them on the comments.
I got him in high school from my brother who had bought him for a dollar from a thrift store in Helper, UT. He then painstakingly picked off all the sequins leaving behind the glitter glue.
Oriole shirt has never let me down. He fit me so well, that's why he stayed around so long.
I took him to Jackson and cleaned the grease traps in him, hoping the stains wouldn't show up on the black.
When Ben and I started dating, Ben picked me up for breakfast and I was wearing Oriole Shirt and Ben, of course was wearing a Red Sox shirt. An old guy at the diner even commented on it.
Then there was the rec league softball game we went to watch and Camertle didn't have a shirt with numbers on the back so I took off Oriole Shirt (I had a long sleeve shirt on underneath) and gave it to her so she could play as #2.
Good times.
I wore him through pregnancies, through summer and winter, he has always been there in the drawer waiting for me.
So this is all the memorial I could come up with for Oriole Shirt. May we cherish his memory. If you have any good memories to share you may take this time to share them on the comments.
3 comments:
I am genuinely sad about this. I'm sitting in my cubicle and there is just the faintest inkling of wanting to cry. Oriole shirt is one of our oldest ties back to when we met and you're right, it has been a part of a ridiculous percentage of our best memories. RIP. (Can we frame it or something?)
Oh I have good memories of that shirt! Mostly dutch oven grease memories. Remember that grease? It was eternal. I'm amazed your shirt wasn't ruined. I lost many a cowboy shirt to that grease...not that I miss them.
That was a great night, when you let Camertlemort wear Oriole Shirt. I bet we won, or she hit a homerun because of it.
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