I bought this shirt when I was fat. It was too small for me, but I couldn’t put it back on the rack. At the time I was toying around with the Paleo diet, and thought I’d be able to wear it in a few short months. I didn’t stick with the diet at the time, so the shirt remained in a box in my storage locker.
My in-suite washing machine had been broken for a few weeks, and I was running out of clean tees.1 I hadn’t thought about it in almost a year, but as I pulled the green article out of the box my eyes widened with excitement.
I might be small enough to fit into this thing.
I put it on, and immediately felt the warmth of self confidence emanating from my chest.
![Jaugernaut Joe's 40th Jubilee](https://patdryburgh.com/images/uploads/juggernautjoes.jpg)
It’s the moustache that does it for me.
Episode 30 of my podcast, Hundred Down, is up. I drop a big announcement a few minutes in, about which I’ll have more to say here in the next a week or so.
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White. Whine. ↩