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Amy and I went out last night and while in line getting a coffee, a huge man law was broken by the cashier/barista.
“That is a really nice shirt, sir.”
[Grant with look of complete bewilderment.]
If I had been wearing a T-shirt - that would have been legit. One man can compliment another man on a cool T-shirt or sports jersey. I got a Champ Bailey jersey with embroidered numbers on it. (Ebay is a wonderful thing.)
Perfectly legit to compliment that.
Not cool to compliment an Eddie Bauer collared shirt.
Amy noticed this.
We get in the car and she says “Was that odd?”
Not only was it odd, it made me extremely uncomfortable. Which further proves the point - if a woman thinks that is odd for one man to compliment another man on a dress shirt - it’s odd.
17 responses so far ↓
1 Mike R. // Dec 31, 2006 at 9:58 am
Uh… Grant. There are certain guys that live by a different set of “man laws.”
…Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
2 Heath // Dec 31, 2006 at 2:27 pm
I agree with you Grant, there should absolutely be a flag on the field for this one. You should have pulled his man card on the spot.
Heath
3 Adwire Guy // Dec 31, 2006 at 11:00 pm
What color was the shirt?
4 Grant // Jan 1, 2007 at 10:32 am
Funny - I purposely left that detail out. It was salmon colored…not pink.
5 wayne // Jan 1, 2007 at 11:45 am
The fact that you know it was salmon makes me uncomfortable.
6 MikeS // Jan 1, 2007 at 6:49 pm
G - be comfortable in your manhood and wear salmon, even know the color. I learned this from Karen.
Question though - is it alright for a man’s friend to compliment him on his shirt - regardless of color & style? Or is this off limits to all men? Answer could determine new man law. . .
7 Chris // Jan 2, 2007 at 8:17 am
I think it’s super!
8 kris // Jan 2, 2007 at 10:27 am
there is hope for you yet! guess you’re on your way to becoming one of these:
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1900122
9 Rowland // Jan 2, 2007 at 10:28 am
BTW…the Spyder jacket in the video looks really good on you Grant. It really accentuates your figure……oops
10 Grant // Jan 2, 2007 at 10:44 am
MikeS - i think you could get away with complimenting - then moving on.
Like - “hey, that’s a pretty cool shirt. How ’bout the Broncos? The Boise State ones, I mean.”
Or hey - “that’s a nice jacket, pass the steak.”
But commenting - like Rowland - on the clothing and then how that clothing makes you look…
dead ball foul, 15-yard penalty.
11 Grant // Jan 2, 2007 at 10:46 am
kris - I just read that article and I’m laughing so hard right now.
“metro-sexual”
For those who aren’t quite hetero, not quite homo.
12 kris // Jan 2, 2007 at 3:14 pm
i’m tellin’ ya, when i think ‘metro’ - i think ‘Grant’ (in salmon, of course)!
tee … hee …..
13 Rowland // Jan 2, 2007 at 5:18 pm
OK…..pass the steak (sorry)
14 Catbird // Jan 7, 2007 at 6:35 am
If you are a man that (a) wears a salmon-colored shirt (b) knows enough to call it “salmon-colored” and (c) gets his coffee at Starbucks instead of McD’s or 7-11, then you need to expect that you’re gonna get comments on it, maybe especially from a man.
What would’ve been weirder is if it’d just be a plain light blue Oxford—then he’d have been complimenting you (or for example, your lovely eyes), not the shirt!
15 rob // Jan 9, 2007 at 5:22 am
i like your facial hair
16 Leroy Brown // Feb 1, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I hate to say it, but Catbird has a point. If you think you can pull off ’salmon’ ( less-pinky word for Pink ), then you’ve got to deal with the breaking of the man laws.
17 Daniel // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:40 am
I think the penaltys are offsetting ones, replay third down!
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