Really?

 
I was walking along in New York the other day, when I saw a guy wearing this charming t-shirt.  Ordinarily I don’t care about this kind of thing, because I figure a guy like that is his own worst enemy.  But– here’s what got me.    He was with a woman.  She wasn’t bad looking, either.  I kind of looked at her for a second, like, "you’re supposed to regulate this kind of thing."  And by that, of course, I mean that once you’re in a relationship, it’s time to stop wearing shirts like this, mostly because whoever you’re with will tell you, in no uncertain terms, that this t-shirt is stupid, and that no self-respecting man would be seen in public like this.  I don’t even mean I want to censor people or I’m the morality police— I just mean that once a real relationship starts, it’s time to pack away this t-shirt.  Because really, now you’re just making your girlfriend/ wife look bad.   Alone, it would have been believable that you didn’t know any better.   

Maybe I’ve got it all wrong– maybe it was his sister, and they’re in a family of yuk-yuk jokesters, and she gave him that shirt for his birthday, because THAT would be totally hilarious!  But, I don’t think so.  I think he was just embarrassing, and she knew it, and everyone who passed him knew it, and that made me a little sad for her.   

Incidentally, I saw a guy walking along today wearing a t-shirt that said "I LOVE BOOBIES!"  Not surprisingly, he was alone.

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