“Still Relevant”
With a sigh, Gary opened the bottom drawer of his dresser and took out a threadbare t-shirt. Thirtyish years ago, it had been a plain, dark blue shirt his girlfriend at the time had ironed a political message on. Now it was a faded blue and the message was hard to read since the letters had started peeling.
His wife Susan
watched him for a moment. “It’s time to
throw that away.”
“As I’ve explained
before,” Gary stated, “I told my college girlfriend I would wear this shirt
until it was no longer needed. But
sadly, we live in a world run by assholes who have no qualms about shedding
other people’s blood for their oil.”
Gary pulled the
shirt over his head, and looking at Susan gave it a firm tug over the belly
that had somehow grown since college.
This unfortunately caused a large rip to open on the left side of the
shirt.
Gary took a
breath, then took the shirt off. He
folded it up, placed it back, then closed the drawer. He turned to see Susan watching him with a
raised eyebrow. “Perhaps I should order
a new one.”
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For those who didn’t
get the reference, I remember back in 1990 in the lead up to the Gulf War, a
lot of people protested the war with the phrase “No blood for oil.” While this
was mostly on signs, I’m sure a few people put it on shirts. I don’t know if anyone still has a shirt from
then, but they, sadly, probably need a new one.
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