Michael S. Pascua The Life of a Freelancer

17Aug/090

90s Sheik

Recently, my aunt has lit a small fire under the family to get rid of a lot of old clothes. We went through the storage room and pulled out countless numbers of garbage bags full of clothes. All the clothes unfortunately were a little moldy and kind of gross, so the family has spent the past few (you know the ones that don't rain) days sprawling the clothes out in the sun to try to both dry the clothes and hopefully remove the smell. Let’s just say that the smell isn’t as strong, but still lingers.

I’ve had the task of sprawling out all the clothes from my childhood. Clothes I haven’t worn in more than 20 years. Little Oshkosh B’gosh overalls. Shirts with Mickey Mouse or Bart Simpson. A large number of polo shirts and shirts related to the following sports teams: The Yankees, Raiders, or Cowboys. I shrug about the Cowboys/Raiders; I assume that they were good back in the 90s. Weren’t the Raiders in a totally different city?