Tiger Wasteland

A couple of weekends ago, I was babysitting the 10 year-old nephews while mom and dad were working and housesitting. They also have an 18 year-old brother, Zack. Well Zack was getting ready to go to his girlfriend's high school play and he came out dressed to the nines in khaki pants, a nice white shirt and this cool pink and purple and black sleeveless argyle sweater vest. It had big pink triangles on the pattern.

"Uncle Tony, does this look too gay?" he asks.

"No, Zack, I think it looks good!" I replied.

"That's what I thought, too. Everybody else said it looked gay."

So he proceeded to go to the play and I didn't think anything else about it until the next day when I retold the episode to my sister and brother-in-law and we all had a huge chuckle about it. My brother-in-law, David, said that I should have said, "No Zack, that is just the right amount of Gay." And I would have, had I been faster with my wit.

So this brings me to the reason for this post. Tonight I am watching "Will & Grace" and lo and behold Jack (Just Jack!) is wearing the same sweater vest! Exactly! I cannot wait to tell my nephew, Zack, that YES I should have stopped him from wearing that vest that fateful night out. I am sure his friends (IF they watched TV tonite) will give him hell. But he thinks having a gay uncle is pretty cool so it will probably not matter much. To him, anyway.