Extra Disappointment In Retiring Shirt That Made Me Unique

I dug my Roman Dirge “I like monkeys, except for that one” shirt out of my closet recently. I hadn’t worn it in a while, and I just noticed it has a small hole in one armpit. It’s time to retire it.

This is disappointing, because I love that shirt. It’s my favorite of the Roman Dirge shirts I own. It’s not like it’s much use to me anymore with a hole in the armpit (I have tons of shirts I don’t mind getting messed up if I’m going to paint the house or do something else I’ll never do), so it’s time to go. It’s still disappointing to get rid of it though, since I don’t think they sell these particular ones anymore.

Even beyond that, this shirt once made me unique. I was in an International Law class one time and the professor was trying to make a point about why we have international laws. He told us to look at the labels on our shirts and find out if they were made in the U.S.A. I was the only one in the entire class whose shirt was made in the U.S.A.

The instructor then asked if we saw why we had international laws. A friend of mine raised her hand and said yes. Personally, she wanted to be able to wear something other than my monkey shirt and international laws were the way that we were able to interact as countries so we could have commerce across borders and such other things.

Regardless of her slam on my monkey shirt, I still took pride in the fact that I was unique in that demonstration. The professor was frankly surprised that anyone had a shirt made in the US, and I was the only one. It wasn’t a big thing, or really important, but it’s a fun little memory and the shirt was always a reminder of that.

Now I need to get rid of it. Stupid armpit hole.