Why I Procrastinate

Too Old For These Tees

It was a moment that I had not expected. Moments come up on you so very fast that you sometimes forget that life is but a series of moments, each one carrying us to the next. It can become like a well-oiled machine. You predict so many of the moments, and they happen so fast and in order and the right way that things should, that you barely notice them going by.
But this is a moment that I remember, well the exact moment that it happened.

Back story....
I love puns. Really I do. I once sent in a list of ten puns to a joke contest hoping to take the prize, that maybe one of my puns would win! I did have ten in after all, the chances were good that one of them would win! But sadly, no pun in ten did.


I'll give the rest of you a chance to read that again....I'll wait for you in the next paragraph.

Anyone who knows me has probably seen me in one of my various Joke shirts. I've got my favourites, and some that I just have. What a Joke-Tee is a shirt that has writing on it, telling a joke perhaps, or funny picture.

Example: In Sink With Nature - with a picture of a guy in kitchen sink with a squirrel. If you say squirrel like Verucca Salt in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, this sounds a lot funnier.

You've all seen my Atari shirt, my More Cowbell, my pink shirt that says "Keep Laughing, this is your girlfriends shirt"....which is funny for two reasons, because my father in law is the one who gave it to me. I've got a shirt that says "How do you keep an idiot busy? See other side" on both sides. An "I'm with Stupid" and an arrow pointing up shirt.

And then there's what I still think of as my holy grail of Joke-Tees.....Save The Humans.

A big cartoon of a whale, and a speech bubble saying "Save The Humans".

So there you go, I love them. I really do, I think they're fun.

And then the moment happened.

Saturday afternoon, date day with Angela. Consisted of shopping & Starbucks. Not even really being too aware of it, I grabbed a Joke-Tee. This one being my Atari shirt. Just the logo here, no real joke, but I guess "vintage" shirts I kind of classify in the same category.

At some point, I glanced myself in the mirror, and I saw myself wearing the shirt.

And then I thought....I'm 27.

Twenty-Seven. I'm almost thirty. And then I further thought....I've got six months to go before I'm safely out of the "Forever Twenty-Seven" club. For those of you who don't know, the "Forever Twenty-Seven" club is made up of famous people who all died when they were twenty-seven. Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, James Dean, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison.

And it hit me. They all died at twenty seven...if I'm at an age where I could in fact die...yes I know that could happen at any age, but whatever...then I could be towards the end of my life. And I'm wearing these Joke-Tees?

Then there was the moment....do I have to grow up now? Am I too old for these Tee's? Should I be wearing golf-shirts to match my mini-van? Do I have to get serious now?
Again, anyone who knows me will know that I will never "grow up". Life is fun for me, it really is. But there was a few hours where I genuinely felt too old for those t-shirts. Too old for some of the things I do for fun....video games, air guitar, playing music ridiculously loud, watching Disney movies, listening to Adventures In Odyssey over and over again, reading Harry Potter, and going out to buy a shirt that says "Wyld Stallyns". I need to go buy the Volvo, trade in for some C.S. Lewis (no not those sissy lion stories) and complain about both the volume of the music and how the quality was so much better back in my day.

There's no real resolution here. It was only a few hours long, but I don't think I'll ever be too old for those shirts. As Angela said, that's what I do. It's part of who I am. If I were to do those thigs...Volvo, complaining about stuff, being way too serious for my own good, then I really think that people would think that there is something wrong...something very wrong.

Too old to wear these Tee's?

Save The Humans





BONUS....for those who still didn't get it, "no pun in ten did"...."no pun intended"