Last week we wrote about the joys of rattling around a mostly empty house. No more kids living at home, but you’ve got all their toys, soccer cleats, lacrosse sticks, finger paintings, as well as copies of every newspaper and magazine you thought was important enough to save. And keep in mind, this was way before digital. Then the inevitable occurs. You feel the need to downsize. And boy do the developers see us coming. The Boomers. Still the biggest blip in the population. New apartment buildings are popping up all over the country. Where I live in Westchester County, there was a massive GM plant that shut down, and guess what it’s become? That’s right, a massive apartment and condo complex. At any rate, we get lured into selling the old house and moving into a new apartment, and that comes along with the dreaded task of downsizing. Do we really need this… fourth set of china, copies of Gourmet Magazine dating back to 1980, old coat rack made of hockey sticks…fill in the blank? And sometimes, sometimes when you get around to rooting through all your stuff, you come upon a diamond. One of those, “Wait’ll I show the guys this!” For those of you who don’t know me, I’m bald. About 10 years ago, I found a picture of myself from college, hair down to my shoulders, wearing a dashiki and playing guitar with a friend at a local college saloon. I shared it at work with my team and even the client. Okay, it was kind of cool, but also a lot embarrassing. So John and I got to thinking. What would be something Al could unearth that would really embarrass him or one of his buddies? And we came up with Craig once modeling underwear, no, not like a Calvin Klein ad, but in a Sears Roebuck catalogue. Pretty tame by today’s standards, but back then, hot stuff! I know more than a few friends who weren’t allowed to have a Penthouse or Playboy, but instead relied on those formerly “racy” pictures from the Sears Catalogue. Not me or John, of course. As the barber from Sweeney Todd famously sang: “Oh, but that was many years ago…”

As for our second comic, it turns out it’s about the same subject as the first. In fact these are parts 1 and 2 of a 3-part series. All about Craig and his underwear. The moral of the story is, when you go through your stuff and find something embarrassing about one of your friends, beware of sharing it. Because chances are, they have something on you as well.

Have a great weekend,

Andy and John