Unintentional irony & Radiohead tee shirts. →[More:] At the Atlanta show Thursday night, I'm standing at the tee shirt kiosk wondering who's gonna pay 40 bucks for a concert tee shirt. And my cell phone rings. It's Terry, asking me to buy him a tee shirt. I've mentioned him here before -- he's an old friend with some health problems that have left him with symptoms very similar to those of a stroke victim: severely slurred speech, limited muscle control, and partial blindness. He asks me to describe the different shirts available. I read them off to him. One reads: "I am trapped in this body and cannot escape."
"Oooh!" Terry exclaims. "That's the one I want."
So I go to buy it.
"That one's only available in a baby tee," the woman running the kiosk says. "It's a girl's size."
"There aren't any that say that in a men's size?"
"No, sorry."
Interesting. So men don't have body image problems. And women who can't fit in a tiny, curvy petite tee shirt evidently should pick another design, too.
So I bought him a shirt that read: "You used to be all right. What happened?"