You never know who's listening.

So today at the local thrift store that I visit several times a week and donate to on a regular basis, I over heard a conversation on the next isle. A big biker type male in his late 40's with Santa hair and a z z top white beard held up a black man tailored shirt with white buttons that had
in red, the words:

The intimidator

embroidered above the pocket the words
The intimidator
also embroidered on the sleeve the number

3

The man spoke rather loudly to what appeared to me to be his wife and his son, who were looking through
the rack of men's shirts. He said, "Do you know what this is? This is a collector idem."
Then he proceeded to put his arms in the sleeves. He continued:
"This shirt is a Dale Earnhart shirt. He was the greatest race car driver that ever lived. He was the number 3. They called him the intimidator."

His wife looked at him and said:
"That shirt doesn't fit you!"
I looked him in the eye across the aisle and I just made a face like something smelt funny and I shook my head. Then I went back to my looking through the hangers on my isle.
He kept talking to his wife and son and whoever else could hear:
"If you bought this shirt on eBay's, it would cost you easily 50 bucks." Even though there was a 12 inch gap to button the front panel and he could barely pull the sleeves off his arms, he took it off and tucked it under his arm and said:
"I'm buying it. It's mine!"
I didn't look up. I didn't say a word, I just went about my business. I knew that shirt real well. I bought it there last year and took off all the buttons and bought the right size shinny white ones to replace the old beige ones. I removed the old buttons and sewed on 12 new buttons and I sewed an extra piece of perfectly matching black cotton where the elbows are in the arms to make the sleeves longer because that was a boy's shirt and I made it to fit me! Ha! No way was I going to converse with him and tell him all that.. You never know who's listening. It was really fun for me that he spoke well of that black shirt! Made my day!