A Cotton Theory Of Adventure
You will be a person to whom things happen.
Here is the theory. You will pull this shirt over your head on a slow morning in some quiet city, and the day will look, in every measurable way, identical to yesterday. Same coffee. Same shoes. Same dreary news on the radio reading itself out as if anyone is still listening. Then you will walk past a small café somewhere off a square, and an elderly man with paint on his trousers will look up from his espresso and say, "Is that a 911?" He will say it the way Italians say things. With his hands.
What happens next is your problem. You may end up in his cousin's garage above a leather shop in Stuttgart, drinking something brown out of a tumbler that has seen things. You may be loaned a tired 964 for the afternoon and told, with a wink, to bring it back before the carabinieri notice. You may simply share a long, knowing nod and continue on your way. The shirt does not require you to do anything in particular. It only insists, gently, that you become a person to whom things happen.
