Quote Originally Posted by Brewboy View Post
I am sometimes amazed how offended people get by a piece of clothing.
If I had gone out regimental and was walking around proving such, then I could see her point, well part of it anyways. My grandma in SC finds it funny too, but she likes her Irish heritage and used to play hammered dulcimer in a 'band' that played celtic/irish/scottish music.

I think what might underlie it is that I become many ways more like my dad that died 5 years ago every day. She made that a messy divorce, she made a point to put him down to me every chance she could, they divorced when I was about 10 and even after I graduated HS she made sure she said something about him making it to my sisters college graduation and not making it to my HS one, which was a week or so apart while he barely made a living in SC, her graduation was in IL, and I lived in OH. The first thing she said when he died was 'You need to be nicer to me now because I'm all you have left"

That or she is just really crazy.