{"id":8114,"date":"2015-01-13T01:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"clothes-make-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/clothes-make-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Clothes Make the Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"instant<\/a>I sent this cartoon to a relative of mine because he’s a runner and participates in marathons.\u00a0 I thought he’d get a kick out of the poke at modern sports psychology.\u00a0 He wrote back saying, “Sadly, I have entered a race, got the t-shirt, and then not actually ran in it. Just once though! \u00a0And I always felt guilty wearing the shirt!”\u00a0 But it reminded me of a couple of stories from my own life.
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Marie buys me shirts at the local Good Will.\u00a0 She buys most of our clothes there because they have some nice, brand name, barely used clothing and it’s really inexpensive.\u00a0 One of my favorites is a dark green polo shirt with “Food City Racing” embroidered in red and white on the left-chest.\u00a0 I wore it when we went to tour the Bristol Motor Speedway.\u00a0 The speedway was closed but we were supposed to be attending a race soon with a friend from another state and we wanted to scope it out and get a feel for the parking and seating so we wouldn\u2019t be complete Nubs when we went for the race.<\/p>\n

There were some staffers there as we poked around and peeked into but did not enter places that looked to be off limits.\u00a0 One fellow stopped us as we were looking over a map board.\u00a0 He started out kind of gruff, but became friendly and helpful quickly.\u00a0 He was talking into his walkie-talkie as we moved on.\u00a0 Staffers kept waving us into places and telling us \u201cJust look around all you want, it\u2019s OK.\u201d\u00a0 So we did.\u00a0 I shot a great video tour and it was while I was fooling around in victory circle that I figured out why everyone was being so nice.\u00a0 There on the sign boards atop the scoring pylon\u00a0\u2013 where they advertise the major sponsor of the next race, was FOOD CITY.\u00a0 I had no idea, I swear!<\/p>\n

I have another from Rural Access Medical.\u00a0 I wore it when I went to help at a spay and neuter clinic in Newport.\u00a0 I wore it because I like the shirt and it\u2019s a good color.\u00a0 Helping with this clinic was a veterinarian from out of state (Ohio I think) who operates a mobile surgery suite built in a motor coach.\u00a0 Very snazzy!\u00a0 The staff of the shelter commented that they wished they had his the space and equipment in their medical room.<\/p>\n

When I met him, he asked me \u201cWhat do you do for R.A.M.?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRural Access Medical: only managerial personnel get those shirts.\u00a0 What do you do for them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have volunteered for them a time or two, but my wife bought the shirt at Good Will.\u00a0 I like the color.\u201d<\/p>\n

He glowered at me…<\/p>\n

Turns out this guy was the head of RAM veterinary services until recently when RAM decided to eliminate veterinary and focus their resources on human health.\u00a0 That was when he started building mobile clinics to carry on that sort of work.<\/p>\n

They say, \u201cthe clothes make the man\u201d, maybe there\u2019s something to that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sent this cartoon to a relative of mine because he’s a runner and participates in marathons.  I thought he’d get a kick out of the poke at modern sports psychology.  He wrote back saying, “Sadly, I have entered a race, got the t-shirt, and then not actually ran in it. Just once though!  And … Continue reading “Do the Clothes Make the Man?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19919,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/19919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}