TAN #190: YanTAN sneaky Ironpants ... (Page 36)

Bull S#!t you can't. You can Roadhouse anyone who deserves it. Another comment like that and you might get a Roadhouse! Even though you may not feel you deserve one.

Yep you still were a youth size 14.

That reminds me of the best line from that movie Act of Valor:

LT Rorke: Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stopped seeing you as dangerous. I've always remembered that, how being dangerous was sacred, a badge of honor. You live your life by a code, an ethos. Every man does. It's your shoreline. It's what guides you home. And trust me, you're always trying to get home.

i'm not even close to middle aged and i've been told plenty of what i'm supposed to be and do.  i just do not belong in this society...reason number a billion i'm over the whole church thing.

Sure you will all make me feel very small and dumb, but I don't get the roadhouse thing??

Tony dresses like a hipster

was going to delete it, but on second thought, I think it deserves to be posted twice

Cheri watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-O0D4eh0g

THAT is hilarious!  

I can't believe I never saw that before.

OH!

I have t-shirts and sweaters and jackets from when I was in high school.  I was ~50 lbs lighter at the time so they've gone from the baggy-grunge-look to actually fitting me.

So Tony, Don't worry, you aren't strange if you have clothes from when you were 20.

I know I have socks that I got when I was 18...  That's a little strange no?

One thing is that you become invisible.

When I was about 34, I filled in as a lecturer for a professor at UT while he was off at a conference.  It was the first time I had been back on a college campus since I graduated.  I was a beautiful spring day so I walked around campus.  I was feeling like a college kid again.  But there was something different.  At first I couldn't put my finger on it.  Then I realized.  I was invisible.  You know how when you meet someone on the sidewalk they either meet your eyes or they avert their eyes.  Either way your presence is acknowledged.  On that day, I realized that the true college kids did not do either they just looked right past me on the sidewalk like I was invisible.  It was a revelation.  At 34, I was already middle aged.

TW 

cool story, bro.

but to be fair, i've never seen a picture of a wedding dress from the 80s that wasn't hideous, at least you didn't pay too much for it.

At times I WISH I had gone into the store and asked for whatever was the absolute cheapest thing they had.  In less than a year I've had 3 different dresses (yes, I realize this was MY choice) the least expensive of which was a $300 cocktail length white dress for the ceremony in London that never happened.  Ugh. 

As Meh said... ALL dresses from 20 years ago were terrible, and at least you didn't spend a carpload on it! 

Sorry the questions begs to be asked- why would you try this dress on today ?

I also am part of the cheap wedding dress clan.  When my ex and I got married, i really did not want the big ordeal.  450 people later......ugh.  I was suck-in to having a weeding that cost us 35K.  My mom and dad had passed, so we mostly paid for everything.

The day I went shopping for a dress, I found one that was absolutely beautiful and it was beautiful BUT it was $3500.  Everyone was there to see it and  did the whole crying thing that I never got?!? I could not justify a 3500 dresses for a 12 hour day!!!  The next weekend I walked into david's bridal alone and they had a $99 sale.  I picked-up one dress, tried it on and walked out with the dress that day, no alterations needed at ALL.