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My Wardrobe is Suffering Major Setbacks...

July 5th, 2006

B. T. writes:

Hi guys.

You know who I am.

This question is directed at Chris and Paul only.

I own a Tricky Woo "pink thunder" shirt and so do Trevor and Steve. I've tried several times to organize it so that we can all wear them at the same time and show up at the same place but each time I think I've successfully convinced them to participate, they always wear some other shirt. Then, to top it off and add insult to injury, they wear their shirts at seemingly random times without even consulting me!!!

I didn't get in line at the Tricky Woo merch table behind these guys and buy the same shirt as them so that we'd never actually wear them together. Now people are beginning to think we're all sharing the same shirt... that is whack and I want to have no part of it. What can I do?


Trevor		 Listen BERT! This is a painfully awkward situation. When Steve and I expressed our love for Tricky Woo through the purchase of t-shirts, we did not know what we were getting ourselves into. And you following along and also getting one, despite the fact that you hate rock music, has only exacerbated the situation.

Steve and I go through great pains to ensure we do not wear the same shirt at the same time. It is a difficult thing to do. Normally, I wait until I see Steve wearing the shirt, then I wear it two days later, hoping that he doesn’t have the onions to wear it again so soon. Sometimes, when I don’t see him wearing it for weeks, I have to just take a chance and wear it, hoping against hope that he doesn’t show up with it on.

Besides, there are only 3 places that matching clothes are appropriate:
-the sports field
-the wedding
-Tricky Woo shirt day (which by the way you missed, Steve and I were there waiting for you!).

Steve		 Even though you've specifically asked me not to offer any advice on this matter, I can't help myself. I live to help those who need help to live.

Seriously - I was kind of irked when you bought the same shirt as me and Trevor. I've been slowly chipping away at that stone for several years now through a series of seemingly coincidental events and occurrences carefully intended to create a deep and unspoken bond between the Trevor and I. I'm pretty sure that us "accidentally" buying the same Tricky Woo shirt would have sealed the deal - our lifetime friendship, that is. In fact, I'm quite upset that you had to ruin our Zen moment by buying that t-shirt too. It's been a steep climb for me to get where I am and I'm not about to let some asswipe ruin it because he wants to start a buddy club with some stupid uniforms.

So step off man - Trev is mine.

Paul		 B.T. you have opened up quite the can of worms. I've have actually been confronted on this issue a couple times by others. I think it is best if we just all wear are own shirt or we'd all be wearing Capcom t-shirts, or Garfielder shirts, or Local Rabbits t-shirts as suggested by others (who will remain nameless).

If you are still keen on the greatness of conformity we can all go out and get tattoos of a tazmanian devil holding a hockey stick and canada flag. Awesome.

Chris		 B.T.

Your plan for displaying your ultimate friendship was flawed from the beginning. I too tried this with Steve and Trevor, a few years ago, with a series of white t-shirts that we bought at the same time. I wanted to come to be known as the "White Tees", a cool band of friends who stick together and hang together, and anyways...this is kind of neither here nor there, and not pertinent to your situation....forget I mentioned it.

The point is this. You can't rely on friends to see your vision. I can see it, and by all means, if you want to have a t-shirt club with me, I can give you my msn or myspace page, and we can talk, but I implore you to think about it as a friendship club, not just some novelty joke for a party or an outing. I am thinking about displaying our solidarity, much like a motorcycle gang. I have a Hyundai Santa Fe, and we could ride in that, with sunglasses, and just cruise. Actually, I have a few ideas about what we could do with those Tricky Woo shirts, if you're interested. I'm sure I could get a few at Rock Junction, no? Anyways, we could ride around town, and blare Tricky Woo on the 6 speaker system in the truck, and we could have a mentality like the Jedi. You know, like Apprentices and masters, and we could start an academy, and train young ones. I have a tonne of ideas about this...seriously, hit me up. We could make a web site, too, and get special belts and stickers....these thoughts are just flowing into my head now. Email me at chris@thesetbacks.com.



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