Like Everyone Else

This summer Chase attended his High School basketball camp.  Practice teams were divided as Shirts vs. Skins.  We are all getting ready to leave for baseball practice one evening when Chase says that he needs to talk to me about something.  I stop everything to see what is so important!  Chase begins to explain that the kids at camp that are on the Skins team (he also happens to be on the Skins team) wear these things with no sleeves.  I begin the cross examination by telling him that he has a plethora of sleeveless UnderArmour shirts in his closet in varying colors to choose from and that I don't understand why the Skins team is wearing a shirt!  I quickly learn that this clothing item helps with sweat and it is NOT like his Under Armour.....they are these things called "Hanes".  I must interject that as he says the word "Hanes" its as though it's a foreign term!  At this point, Mike has come to see what the fuss is about and getting caught up to speed with this conversation.  Chase lets us both know that he asked the camp kids where they get these things and they tell him that you can just go up to Walmart and get them!  We tell Chase that what he's talking about is underwear!  He doesn't buy into that theory and explains that they have these "little lines" in them.  I proceed to explain that they are ribbed and they are still underwear... specifically a "wife beater".  Mike is duly trying to help out reiterating the fact that he is looking for underwear and yes you can get several in a package at Walmart for about 4 or 5 bucks! Now that Chase believes that we actually do know what we are talking about, he doesn't care that he's asking for "Hanes" underwear from Walmart.  He just wants to know if we can go there to get some after practice?  "Yes, we will go look after practice", puts a smile on his face and now we can all get back to what we were doing.  This entire conversation took place with Chase standing on the landing in only his Hilfiger boxers.  Mike tells me to stop buying him expensive underwear, he doesn't even know what Hanes are.  Chase was simply pleading his case so that he could be like everyone else.