Weird experiences while wearing a tie-dye shirt

[Ron Obvious]

So I bought a tie-dye shirt for the first time in decades and while walking to the grocery store wearing it, a guy comes up to me, tells me he loves me and asks he if he can hug me (I politely declined). Yesterday, a kid asked to borrow some rolling paper (I don't smoke).

This sort of thing never happens to me ordinarily. Is it the shirt?

[Suich]

1. What part of town were you in?

[Ron Obvious]

2. I'm currently in Tucson

I'm actually on vacation in Tucson at the moment. Back home in Seattle, I see so many of these shirts I can't imagine them raising an eyebrow.

Hell, maybe I just look like a local celebrity. People do seem to stare a bit.

[Suich]

8. LOL!

There is no neighborhood in the greater Seattle area where wearing tie-dye would even be noticed!

Lucky you being in Tucson...it's getting cold here!

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. It's your haircut. n/t

[Ron Obvious]

4. I don't think so...

Other than the tie-dye shirt, I could probably pass for a Republican candidate for office. I'm clean-shaven with fairly short hair. No Jerry Garcia, me.

[OriginalGeek]

5. Wait...you _bought_ a tie dye shirt?

you didn't make it?

Damn drug store hippies.
















(lol)

[Ron Obvious]

6. It was an impulse purchase ...

It was an impulse purchase, I swear... {hangs head in shame}

[OriginalGeek]

10. lol i owe you an apolgy

I was just looking through my closet and found a Tie Dye Jimi Hendrix shirt my wife bought me some years ago.

Not only did I not make it, I never saw him in concert. Ack! I found a Led Zeppelin '77 tour shirt too! At least I was high school in 77 so I kinda had a shot at seeing Zep but I was only 6 or 7 when Hendrix died. All my other band shirts are from actual shows I saw.


My house is glass and I got a pocket full of rocks.

[Kali]

7. its not the shirt

it's just Tucson

[nolabear]

9. Heck, I have a tie dye Grateful Dead Lithuanian Basketball Team shirt.

Can't wear it for the actual Deadheads trying to bribe it off me. I must admit, it is a thing of beauty.

[unionworks]

11. Once had a tie dye

It was this electric green and yellow thing that just sceamed at you. It was. Fully capable of inducing flashbacks. In a hurry one day, I wore it to work instead of my navy blue twill workshirt. I was driving an electric train on rails, serious heavy equipment, when our h.r. guy walked past. He was a former naval aviator, a very strack crew cut type. Hhe stopped in his tracks and stared slackjawed at the shirt for a good 20 seconds. (No, I didn't get in trouble )

[applegrove]

12. I bought a fake 3 carat diamond years ago. I wore it out shopping one time. I had sales clerks

hanging off my every word and move once they saw it. Seriously it does matter what your uniform is. People do make assumptions. I know the way I dress is hippylike and in a way a way to keep uptight assholes away from me. Though I can't quite say i've ever got the positive reaction you did.