14-Nov-2013, 07:26 PM
That OFA foosball jacket of mine is a magnet for...
It started long ago when other OFA Jacket holders tended to walk out with the wrong jacket, understandable mistake, learned, no names necessary.
But ~last Winter when a group of kids at TG moved from the foosball to the billiard tables with their coats they took mine; it had been on a chair by the last foosball table on the right -- thanks to Chris A that found them and the jacket at the far end of TG.
More recently a group of 50sh-60sh men that were playing on the Tornado tables by the Fireball did the same thing, and they must have gathered the clothing from a couple of those "coat hanger trees" -- thanks to Chris A again for the precedent, I searched TG till I spotted them and sure enough my OFA jacket was nearby.
This afternoon though was quite different. I had to go to the dentist and the "shell" portion of the OFA jacket was just right for the weather. At the dentist I half-stuffed my Warrior cap in one of the pockets and put the jacket at the far end of a long coat hanger.
Five minutes later, to my amazement I was looking at a woman - not older than 40 - reaching far to get it, putting it on, and blissfully indifferent to the light colored cap hanging out of a pocket walking smartly across the room and to the door where I stopped her.
"It was where I put my coat!", "I would have realized it when I could not find my car keys!", and many such gems came out of her. To top it, after I took back my jacket, black and shell only, she put on a Winter quilted dark-wine-colored coat that reached well past her knees half way to the floor.
Who are these people?
It started long ago when other OFA Jacket holders tended to walk out with the wrong jacket, understandable mistake, learned, no names necessary.
But ~last Winter when a group of kids at TG moved from the foosball to the billiard tables with their coats they took mine; it had been on a chair by the last foosball table on the right -- thanks to Chris A that found them and the jacket at the far end of TG.
More recently a group of 50sh-60sh men that were playing on the Tornado tables by the Fireball did the same thing, and they must have gathered the clothing from a couple of those "coat hanger trees" -- thanks to Chris A again for the precedent, I searched TG till I spotted them and sure enough my OFA jacket was nearby.
This afternoon though was quite different. I had to go to the dentist and the "shell" portion of the OFA jacket was just right for the weather. At the dentist I half-stuffed my Warrior cap in one of the pockets and put the jacket at the far end of a long coat hanger.
Five minutes later, to my amazement I was looking at a woman - not older than 40 - reaching far to get it, putting it on, and blissfully indifferent to the light colored cap hanging out of a pocket walking smartly across the room and to the door where I stopped her.
"It was where I put my coat!", "I would have realized it when I could not find my car keys!", and many such gems came out of her. To top it, after I took back my jacket, black and shell only, she put on a Winter quilted dark-wine-colored coat that reached well past her knees half way to the floor.
Who are these people?
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