I don't spend a lot of time contemplating clothing choices in day-to-day life. 90% of my work is spent in a uniform that makes me look like a Target employee, and the other 10% is spent in a suit. Around town, I tend towards cargo pants and a button-down shirt that conceals my gun/gut. My t-shirts are mostly Shot Show promo items from 2005-2010. The last t-shirt I actually bought with my own money was a COAR shirt. Today, however, as I was putting away laundry, I realized half of my t-shirts are Super Hero shirts now.

I'm talking Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, etc... In fact, I am wearing a Superman shirt as I type. I was never that big a fan of the superhero genre; I read comic books as a kid, but it was all GI Joe. Aside from 1989 Michael Keaton Batman, I don't recall being particularly pumped for a superhero movie or TV show of any kind. I've watched them when they have come on the television, and I saw the first Ironman in an actual theater, but I haven't gone out of my way to identify with the Super Hero genre. And yet, I have the whole Justice League in my shirt drawer.

I realize what has happened is that when my wife buys a shirt for my son, she thinks it is funny or cute for us to match, so she buys the same shirt for me. I also realize the path this is headed down, where I will soon be the Dad at the roller-rink rocking the bright yellow Pokemon t-shirt despite being over 40 and believing that Pokemon is just animated cock fighting for children. Is the desire to dress people alike just inherent in the female genome? And if so, why not choose to dress my son like an old man?

I'm tempted to replenish the rag stock in my gun cleaning box in a passive-aggressive counter-strike, but then I might not get my afternoon juice box and fruit roll-up.