This Tickle is entitled, “Marshalls.” When I was a kid, my mom used to buy all my clothes from Marshalls. When Z. Cavariccis were popular and every kid had to have one, my mom got me a pair, but they were frog vomit green. Whenever I complained about the clothes she bought, she’d always yell at me and say, “Its the style, Scott! That’s what the style is now! They wouldn’t sell it if it wasn’t in style!”
As a kid, I didn’t get it. Because at Marshalls I saw brand names like Skidz, Edwin jeans, and Polo and yet they were so ugly. Marshalls is like a home to all of the bastard clothes that designers try to forget. I bet Eddie Murphy and Arnold Schwarzenegger use Marshalls to clothe all their unwanted kids.
Maybe Marshalls wouldn’t be such a bad memory if middle school never existed. Middle school — where every kid is desperate to fit in. You’re too young to drive and too young to make money. Therefore kids end up judging you based on how much your parents are willing to spend on your outfit. It’s all a reflection on your parents. So in order to keep from getting made fun of, I worked hard at making people laugh. Then it didn’t matter what color my pants were. Or how cheap my mom was. If I have a son, and he’s born without a sense of humor, I’m gonna send him to school dressed like a clown. Then maybe the kids at school will think, “Wow. His parents must be really funny.”
Tags: Clothes, Marshall's, shopping
Oh, Mom’s SO gonna love this…
You should feel lucky…at least your mom bought you clothes. No CLOWN clothes for the kids!!! Even if he’s born with your sense of humor.
You know your mom well!
So true Michelle.
That’s not fair…everybody had it better than M’chelle.
Yeah, but I bet Michelle didn’t have to go to school wearing green cavariccis while carrying a saxophone with a mullet haircut.
M’chelle had a bird nest for a hair. And by the way — You’re the one that told me to grow out those mullet curls!
Apparently it was bad advice…too bad “bird’s nest hair” never took off.
Yeah. That fad must have flown the coup………
You hit the nail on the head about middle school. I had a few cavvaricci’s, but that didn’t exactly cement my induction into the cool-kids clique. I still dont like Marshall’s, except to buy miscillaneous gifts and those exotic coffee packages!!
“You are only as funny as you look…”
-Ted Mathers, from the 16th episode, season 3 of “Vice Cop”, a show that never aired because the actors never existed anyway.
I’ve seen that episode in the 80′s, on this illegal box my dad bought that only aired shows from my imagination.
Oh my gosh! You’re so right! I’m glad you had to wear ugly green Z’s if they helped make you so funny all I did was laugh around you in high school you were such a great person to be around!
Thanks. You helped nurture my comedic side cuz you were always a fantastic “laugher.”
Crap, I still shop at Marshalls!
Stop encouraging them!! Kids everywhere implore you.