Sometime in recent months Mary noted that: "people with grey hair shouldn't always be wearing old, faded stuff. We need to look crisp." I will confess that her words have stuck with me a little bit since then and have even haunted me at moments. One of those moments was this morning when I headed out for my normal Saturday morning meeting wearing some shorts that have been in my wardrobe, I'm pretty sure, since the late 80s and were purchased at a vintage store then. They were held up by a brown leather belt I had bought from a hobo (apologies, it still seems like the right word for the guy) on the side of the road heading down to Pittsboro in 1990 for the kingly sum of $1.
No doubt, there's some substance to what she says. But I hate shopping. What am I going to do about this, get in my car and go to the store? Not bloody likely.
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