Patches

Talking with an old friend at the reunion this weekend. We were joking about all the band and choir classes we took in high school, marveling at how we actually managed to accumulate enough quality credits to graduate.

A comment was made that my friend didn't put all of his choir patches on his letter jacket, not one to tempt fate among the more devout of the athletic lot in high school. We got a good chuckle out of that.

Got me thinking. My old jacket is gathering dust in the back of the closet. So, out it came.

Apparently back in high school I subscribed to theory that more is not enough when it comes to music patches. It would appear that worries about a linebacker blitz on my musical nerd-dom were a secondary concern to finding enough uncovered material on the jacket.

I can just see me now, back in the day...

"Oh no, you don't want none of this pal. See this? Yeah, that's right, All-State choir alternate.
Don't be eye-balling me man. Don't make me go a capella on you. See this one? All District band, little something I picked up in 'nam fella. So, step off. I will drop a b-flat shock and awe on you that will rock your world. Better recognize!"

There was actually a patch on a patch. Ridiculous.