The T-shirts
By, Greg Sokol
As you all know, our dear friend Rob loved sweaters, especially in the fall and winter when paired with his favorite Christmas music. However, those of us that had the pleasure of rooming with Rob also know of the other garment for which he had a special affinity: the T-shirt. He must have done laundry once each college term, since he had enough shirts to wear a different one every day of the term.
These shirts didn’t always fit well in his various rooms. In our two-room triple, the shirts started in a wall on and around his dresser but gradually expanded, threatening to absorb the rest of the floor space and furniture. We pushed them back constantly. It was annoying then, but I’d give a lot to have to shovel back Rob’s T-shirts again now.
What a happy coincidence, then, that I discovered a suitcase of forgotten T-shirts from college in the same week that I became aware of this Homage to SweaterWeek. Naturally, I built a T-shirt fort in my basement. This fort contains 56 T-shirts, many of which were also with me in the spring of 2008 when I lived with Rob and James in South Mass. Two are also Dartmouth intramural championship T-shirts, if you were wondering about that. I also found a DREAM shirt in the pile that I either bought or took from Rob, so I put it on and wore for the project.
While building and relaxing in my T-shirt fort, I thought of those few months living with Rob and all the adventures it provided. There was a lot of late-night FoCo, a lot of singing Mika, a lot of time on the couch, a lot of time sitting in the hole in the couch pretending it was comfortable, and a lot of really wonderful friendship.
Also in an homage to Rob, I didn’t clean up my T-shirts when I was done.
It was a great success for everyone involved.
No comments:
Post a Comment