My mom and I, and my sister love a bargain. Like, if something — and we used to be like I feel like when I was in high school, I was really bad about this. Like, if something was on sale, and you were getting a lot of money off like I wanted to have it, it felt like wow it was like a lucky thing, it was like a once in a lifetime find, of course I have to purchase it. Even if it wasn’t something that maybe I was like super interested in, it took me a very long time to break that habit. And the reason I bring this up is I think this is what happened with my sister and my mom.
I was at college they were off shopping and they found this leather jacket, really discounted and it was black and red, and it looked an awful lot like a jacket that Michael Jackson had worn in one of his really famous videos in the 80s. Like, which is cool but that wasn’t necessarily my style and I, could see myself, I could maybe push it a little bit, you know, it was like a little bit more, you know, hip hop or punk or maybe kind of like motorcycle, like, whatever kind of jacket thing, I probably could have pulled it off.
But at college, like, where I was in college, and I think I may have — I talked about this in my last entry, actually people tended to dress like much more conservative. I think if I had put that coat on, I would have felt like I was gonna attract a lot of attention for the wrong reasons. Yeah, so there was no flipping way I was gonna wear that coat but I knew it was a great like deal and I knew it was like a really high quality jacket and my mom and sister seemed really psyched they found it for me so I couldn’t get rid of it.
I mean, I don’t think I ever wore that thing, but I had it for years. I mean and I would you know, at the end of every college year, I would like pack it up and, you know, keep it. I mean I don’t think I ever brought it home to Nebraska because like I wasn’t, I guess, I didn’t think I was gonna wear it there either so I would pack it up and put it in storage with the rest of my stuff for the summer and then get it out again when I came or I mean I probably left it in the trunk.
Anyway, I — I keep thinking about this coat and I don’t know, like, what — I must have finally gotten rid of it. I do not still have it. And I wonder if somebody found it and thought it was great. I mean, I had it for so long I probably could have worn it as a Halloween costume as like, Michael Jackson at some point, but anyway God, that coat.