Sputter!!! Jjjust a jjjean jjjacket! It’s not JUST a jean jacket. That piece of history has accompanied me on my travels for over 30 years! It’s a classic! A goddamn artifact! In the history of me, it is the one thing that symbolizes everything I am about. Every rip, every stain, every worn patch tells a story about my life! Me and my jacket, the places we have been, the people we have met and the events that have shaped us are all written on that jacket! Would you have me thrown aside because I am battered and scarred? You don’t do that to something that is loved. I love my goddamn jacket! I am going buried in that jacket! In fact, I going to put a condition in my will that no one gets a dime if I am NOT buried in that jacket. So, think about THAT before you fulfill your promise to incinerate it one day!
Is nothing SACRED anymore??!!
—My jacket and me
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.
DUDE I KNOW
Ah the cause of many a divorce. LOL.
So put it in a fucking shadow box and hang it on your wall, build a shrine to it, do whatever you see fit with it.. but you shouldn’t be wearin’ a 30 year old jean jacket all over town thinking you look good.
“GRADE A BITCH”?
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Is this a new thing?
“Every rip, every stain, every worn patch tells a story about my life!”
And it screams loud and clear: “I can’t let go of what I had 30 years ago!! They were my glory days and now I’m just a sad, pathetic shell of what I once was.”
It’s just a jacket for fuck sakes. I agree with Jennier, put the thing in your own personal museum or something and right a little story about each rip, stain and worn patch. Just stop wearing it.
I have some items that have been with me through a lot….but when I think about whether I’d rather look back and say “me and my adventure hat have been through so much together” or “me and my spouse have been through so much together”, I choose the latter.
I can get wanting to be buried with the jacket though.
It’s not about buses, smoking, or making illegal left turns, but you have to admit it’s got some originality to it. Some former Dennis Hopper-esque guy with a beer gut and a ‘dream catcher’ mullet (bald up front, long in back) lamenting the near death of his beloved jean jacket. It won’t change the world, but it paints a picture. I can see the Maiden and Stones patches on it already.
What are you – fifty going on sixteen? This is the most pathetic bitch yet.
I think that in today’s throw away culture, someone having a jacket for 30 years is awesome. I WISH I had my old leather and suede fringed jackets from when I was in high school. They were true pieces of art.
suck it up muffin, it is jjjust a jjjjean jjjacket, jjjack ass!
I don’t need my window washed, thanks.
Well that’s great and all, good for you and the jacket, but since nobody here (presumably) has threatened to “incinerate” it, perhaps you should redirect these passionate words to the person who has.
I feel bad for people I knew in high school (going on 25+ years) who still have the same haircut (more or less).
You know what, this bitcher is right. I’ve used the same goddamn backpack for school since 4th grade. The zipper’s broken, I’ve spilled a bucket of green paint on it, and torn tons of hole in it…but it’s still mine. Fuck yeah, OP. Though I’m not sure I’d want to be buried with my backpack still on my shoulders…
OP, you said it. If I was wearing something that made me look like a douchebag tough guy for 30 years, I would want it fucking bronzed too! I bet there’s been hundreds of people spanning three decades sitting next to you on a bus or at a party who have had no choice but to to subjected to the sweet stories behind every “stain and rip” and piss splash and skid mark on that denim. That thing is probably a fire hazard anyway.
I bet the OP is the guy who played Wheels on the original Degrassi.
Betcha she burns it in the end–with him in it.
I certainly have items like that, but I no longer wear them or use them, I just keep them forever and take them out to admire every so often.
I do admire that you’re clearly still the same size as you were 30 years ago, some days I can’t fit into clothes I wore last week.
Lol NGF, so true!
Now I have a picture in my mind of 20 years older Wheels and he still has those glasses, the tight jeans and this tattered Jordache type jean jacket.
Even Joey knew when it was time to move on from that “totally awesome” jeans vest.
people please, have a little respect, i am still wearing my underwear of 35 years now,(just kidding people).
It’s healthier for you to get rid of it. Think of the new adventures you and the NEW jacket can get into…
if you love it let it go.
you need new clothes.