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Tonight we attended Eric's 20-year high school reunion in Fort Collins. It was fun meeting his old friends and amusing to hear what they remembered about him - particularly as they all said the same thing!
"Do you know this is the first time I've ever seen Eric wear pants? In high school, he always wore shorts - even in the dead of winter!" Multiple people said this! And yet, today, on a hot summer day, he was in jeans because we rode the motorcycle up there.
Old Friend: "Have you ever seen Eric wear corduroy shorts?" [tone of voice suggested this was so old-fashioned, he expected to surprise me...]
Ellie: "Yes.... yesterday. In fact, there's at least one pair on my bedroom floor. Eric, do you mean you've had those shorts since high school?"
Laurie: "Actually, I think some of those were hand-me-downs from Brian [her husband]."
These discussions made it all the more meaningful when I looked through the yearbook and found a big picture of Eric wearing those corduroy shorts! And you know, he was a handsome kid!
"Do you know this is the first time I've ever seen Eric wear pants? In high school, he always wore shorts - even in the dead of winter!" Multiple people said this! And yet, today, on a hot summer day, he was in jeans because we rode the motorcycle up there.
Old Friend: "Have you ever seen Eric wear corduroy shorts?" [tone of voice suggested this was so old-fashioned, he expected to surprise me...]
Ellie: "Yes.... yesterday. In fact, there's at least one pair on my bedroom floor. Eric, do you mean you've had those shorts since high school?"
Laurie: "Actually, I think some of those were hand-me-downs from Brian [her husband]."
These discussions made it all the more meaningful when I looked through the yearbook and found a big picture of Eric wearing those corduroy shorts! And you know, he was a handsome kid!
posted by DenverSop @ 1:26 AM
1 Comments:
At 8/05/2007 9:13 AM,
Anonymous said…
Sorry we couldn't make it up for some park pizza yesterday. I would have enjoyed expanding on Eric's extreme fashion coolness. And maybe Eric could have impressed on her that I WAS a nerd in High School. We had planned on it but kid entertainment responsiblities took precedence.
Anyway.
Light blue corduroy Ocean Pacific shorts. Year round, in any kind of weather condition. And he almost always looked comfortable.
I'm not sure I like hearing that he was wearing something else. Eric reducing his corduroy shorts wearing is leading us into a fashion age du merde. A return to the catastrophic fashions of the sixties.
Don't let this happen, don't rub figurative cheese-graters over the gums of good taste, hold back the bell-bottom insurgency. Keep Eric fashion in fashion.
--Will
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