Been seeing a lot of my friends share how they gifted their kids or were gifted a pair themselves and it got me thinking on the topic I technically had a pair ONCE as a kid, but it didn't really count.
I played and watched football mostly coming up and when it came to basketball I admired Grant Hill and Reggie Miller () My pops would tell me that's who I should look up to, so I just went with it. I had their jerseys and rooted for them in the playoffs (the only time we'd really) watch, I wanted their jerseys, etc. so Jordan never had the same effect on me even though I knew he was better.
Anyways, one year my pops took me to the mall and bought me a pair. It was the 10's if I remember right, but possibly the 11's-- one of them for sure. Either way, them bytches were on clearance and I didn't realize till I got much older and looked back on it all. I came to school with them shyts on the next week on my and these muhfukkas were unbothered.
Me: "What's up?! Ya'll see I got some Jordan's this weekend "
Friends: "Yeah okay who cares "
Me: " What you mean??? They're JORDANS "
Friends: "Yeah, but those are the OLD ones "
Me (looking down at them): . . . . .
I came home that day and told my pops I didn't want them anymore and we went thru a similar exchange-- Only he was like " fukk it, we can take them bytches RIGHT back if you don't want em "
Me (not understanding he's tryna pull my card):
And right back they went... I really was good okay with it though It wasn't till I got much older, and the hype for retros REALLY took off that I kept looking back on that incident and hitting the out how things changed. It still feels like I dodged a bullet tho. I got that energy outta my system before it could take full form , but I had friends with a whole damn collection no shade to any collectors/hypebeasts. Just curious to know who else had a similar experience.
I played and watched football mostly coming up and when it came to basketball I admired Grant Hill and Reggie Miller () My pops would tell me that's who I should look up to, so I just went with it. I had their jerseys and rooted for them in the playoffs (the only time we'd really) watch, I wanted their jerseys, etc. so Jordan never had the same effect on me even though I knew he was better.
Anyways, one year my pops took me to the mall and bought me a pair. It was the 10's if I remember right, but possibly the 11's-- one of them for sure. Either way, them bytches were on clearance and I didn't realize till I got much older and looked back on it all. I came to school with them shyts on the next week on my and these muhfukkas were unbothered.
Me: "What's up?! Ya'll see I got some Jordan's this weekend "
Friends: "Yeah okay who cares "
Me: " What you mean??? They're JORDANS "
Friends: "Yeah, but those are the OLD ones "
Me (looking down at them): . . . . .
I came home that day and told my pops I didn't want them anymore and we went thru a similar exchange-- Only he was like " fukk it, we can take them bytches RIGHT back if you don't want em "
Me (not understanding he's tryna pull my card):
And right back they went... I really was good okay with it though It wasn't till I got much older, and the hype for retros REALLY took off that I kept looking back on that incident and hitting the out how things changed. It still feels like I dodged a bullet tho. I got that energy outta my system before it could take full form , but I had friends with a whole damn collection no shade to any collectors/hypebeasts. Just curious to know who else had a similar experience.