Tonight on the 5:00 o'clock evening news I noticed that the sportscaster who usually wears a suit and tie was this time wearing a dark blue t-shirt under an open jacket.  I've always liked this look of the jacket over a T-shirt and it brings back memories of another occurrence in the basement of San Bernardino Valley Junior College quite a few years back.  I was sitting at one of the wooden tables there looking through the old National Geographics which go back many many years.  They were fun to leaf through for the pictures which showed me how different ads portrayed society through various periods this century.

I recall being a little tired that day from the stress of taking an exam and therefore going to the library basement to browse through the back issues of National Geographic magazine was my way of relaxing.  While doing this, a dark man wearing a greyish suit jacket over a black undershirt (t-shirt?) approaches me and asks me for assistance in finding a certain type of book.  Maybe he thought I worked at the library because of my nerdy appearance or because he thought I might help him (and normally, I probably would have) but that day for some reason I replied in a quiet voice that I did not know the answer to the question and that he probably would have better luck asking a knowledgeable librarian.  Still, he was persistent and repeated his question nicely, and even then I felt he was lost, again, I gave him a variation of my earlier reply and turned back to looking at the current copy of the National Geographic.  The next time I happened to look up from the pages, he was gone.

To this day I am not sure why I did not make the effort to get off of my butt to help this man.  After all, I was not really doing anything important at the moment and being a little tired should not have been an excuse to deny assistance to him.  He might have been a really good person to know and maybe he might have even been able to teach me some important things as well.

Regarding how he was dressed, I still think about what it would have been like to have rubbed my arms under the sleeves of his suit jacket.  I've always been curious as to whether those buttonless shirts they wear underneath are actually T-shirts or something other type of garment.  Perhaps, I will find out someday.

By the way, might I add that my favorite all time wetlook National Geographic article appeared in the October 1964 edition pages 558 through 590 and was entitled "A Sikh Discovers America" by Joginder Singh Rekhi.  It was my favorite because there was a picture of the author diving into a Florida spring fully clothed in a white shirt, necktie, and black slacks.  What a free spirit!