Overheard Lines From The Annual National Cargo Shorts Association (NCSA) Meeting

The members reserved their right to attend the nearly canceled 2020 event in Nashville, despite Gary’s obvious flu-like symptoms

Tavis Putnam
Slackjaw
2 min readSep 22, 2020

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Photo credit: Brett Sayles via https://www.pexels.com/

“Owning a pair of multi-pocketed shorts is our legal right, and they want to take that away from us!”

“Cargos are just so versatile!”

“The Far-Left would have all the Old Navys closed down if they had their way!”

“These Buzzy-Feeds and whatnot, they want us to give up the extra pockets! Well, I say NO!”

“Where else am I supposed to put my meds, my wallet, my phone, and my reading glasses for when I look at the print newspaper that I am single-handedly keeping afloat, by the way!

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Skechers?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our khakis?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Boston Red Sox hats?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our fluorescent Under Armor polo shirts?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Oakleys?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our 2012 silver Toyota RAV4s?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our blonde wives?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our NFL Sunday Tickets?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our kids’ boring soccer games?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our golf clubs?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our over-watered lawns?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our intelligent, child-friendly dog breeds?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our imported Kobe beef?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Bud Light Radlers?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our annual trips to South Beach?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our sexually suggestive wall posts to teenage girls on Facebook?”

“And these teenagers these days, they don’t even use Facebook anymore!”

“Well, I guess THEY already got around to taking that one away, the cucks!”

“You could try Instagram?! My daughter just set one up for me!”

“Thanks, Gary, I’ll keep that in mind!”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our bi-annual big game hunting trips to South Africa?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our authentic Rhodesian Army Selous Scouts badges?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our ancestors’ moral right to the very land they conquered fair and square when Chris Columbus landed on Plymouth Rock in 1492?”

“They can pry these damn shorts off my cold, dead crotch!”

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Tavis Putnam
Slackjaw

(Travis Putman is fine) is a writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared on Slackjaw, Funny-ish, Taste Of Cinema, and NoBudge.