But what they said he did.

And so also he would always come home in a suit.

He had cuffs.

We were always at the freaking dry cleaners.

Yes.

And, you know, as far as Sunday goes, as you're growing up as a kid, your dress clothes never fit because you just outgrow them so fast. You wore them twice a year. Right. And I mean, that was it. It's uncomfortable to put on a tie, even if it was a clip on.

It felt like I look like a clown.

Like the one thing with me, I was like, I just don't want to have a job. I don't am I wearing a suit every once in a while. I just don't want to have a job where I have to wear it every single day and look like that to do a job that ultimately it is interesting. But at the same point in time, you know, I don't know if I'm smart enough to even do it. I don't know how I would have done in law school. I will say, I will say the one thing I did get from my father is what you're saying. I just knew I wanted a job where I didn't wear a suit, right? Because it just, one, I don't think he hated his job. I used to polish shoes. No, but that'm saying in the living room he had to polish shoes you had to spend money at the dry cleaner which always blew my mind like why are you spending money at the dry cleaner you're only wearing a suit because you got to go to work work should cover that if work thinks it's important if they don't think it's important then you shouldn't have to wear the? But he'd bitch about that, or you'd bitch because you forgot to pick up your dry cleaning. And it

became a crisis. Oh, God. It's Sunday at six. And I just thought like, I just need a job where

Sunday is like, ah, crap, I got to go to work tomorrow. Not I have to go to this business

before I get there so that I can look like a

freaking clown.

We went to the track cleaners every Saturday. Like I can remember the route. And it's just, yeah. It just seems like so much. Light starch on hangers. I remember it. Say it in the window all the time. Light starch on hangers. That's all you heard. And I know that, you know, you have just really distinct smells. Like my stepdad would wear maybe two different pairs of shoes. A week, a brown pair and a black pair. Yep, that was it. I could walk into the foyer of our home and smell that Kiwi shoe polish. And note for a fact. Name another shoe polish. That's the only one I can't. That when I walked into that living room, there would be 15 pairs of shoes that all needed to be shined.

But he'd only wore two. He probably just wore two. And I was like, God, damn it. Like, oh, man, I'm going to have to sit there and say, because, you know, you had a brush and a cloth. I mean, you know, buff them up. You had to do all this stuff. And it took forever. but at least your stepfather trusted you to do it. My father, like,

even if you offered, like, hey man, I want to make some money. It's like, you can wash dishes, you can mow the lawn. And it came to stuff like shining his shoes. And like I said, it's that ex-military in him. It's like, you're going to do it wrong. You're going to piss me off. and he would just tell you that it for like this is not something you do. But every Sunday, he would sit down, put down 60 minutes, and break. And did your dad, it wasn't just the shoe pops. Got to be the ex-military thing is my dad shined his shoes every Sunday night. Yeah. And it was 60 minutes. He would shine him. Put down the newspaper and he could start going to town. And I'm like, this is to go to work. Right? I'm like, bro, I never want to do what you do.

All right. newspaper and he could start going it back. And I'm like, this is to go to work. Right. I'm like,

bro, I never want to do what you do. All right. My dad took a step further, though, is he got older, or he didn't have to wear dress shoes. He started polishing his goddamn black tennis shoes. I used to polish my white ones and you want to talk about a ghetto looking pair of rebugs. Because you've already scuffed them up as a kid.

They're leather.

They're not shiny.

Right.

They're more granule.

And, you know, so I'm polishing my shoes it's just like you just look like the poor kid I mean and you know yeah wouldn't polish it you know because you are they weren't spending money on me in my shoes so I was just trying to make them look you know as clean as I could but when you this, it looks like putting white out on a page. Yeah, basically. You can't tell the whiteout is on there. And that, you know, these, you can't save these. They're too far gone, you know. Yeah. And I wasn't just watching all that. I'm like, I never want to do that. And it worked out. The only time I had to wear a uniform was when I cooked.

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