our anonymous submitter in brooklyn received this e-mail from his 28-year-old male roommate after purchasing a similar (not identical) blue toggle pea coat. “we are rarely out of the apartment together,” our submitter notes. hmm, wonder why?
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160 responses so far ↓
#1
AKZombie
Okay, even I’m not this much of a girl, and I have a vagina.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm rating: +136
#2
dirty_snowflake
Geezus. Someone’s mangina hurts.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm rating: +30
#3
Mishee
I can’t believe one, let alone two people bought a blue toggle pea coat.
homos of a feather….
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:39 pm rating: +43
#4
leftfoot
isn’t imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm rating: +6
#5
Fizzywiggle
I thought most kids stopped whining, “You’re COPYING me!” in grade school.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:41 pm rating: +34
#6
K Dog
I would not be able to resist buying everything this tool bag does from here on out. Hell, I might even take on a second job just to fund this new little hobby.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm rating: +72
#7
T.U.M.
That’s one of the nicest PAN’s I’ve ever read. And it sounds like they DID have an earlier face-to-face about, to which this note is just a follow-up. I’m on Team Both Brooklyn Boys. Let’s all go for a hot dog.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm rating: +10
#8
claw71
Ok, I won’t even bring up straight guys. Let’s assume this happens to a couple of normal, openly gay guys.
Flamer: Dude, that coat looks just like mine.
Queen: Wow! It does. I guess we both have a great sense of style.
Flamer: Word.
Queen: It’s kind of like the time you bought the same pair of Steve Madden’s I picked up at the Designer Shoe Outlet.
Flamer: I know! I’m so jealous that you got yours for half of what I paid.
Queen: You know, it’s really a crying shame we don’t wear the same size.
Flamer: Are you saying I’m fat?
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:46 pm rating: +80
#9
MAMARILLA2
Not just the coat but shoes too. OMG they were the ones that left the Jonas Bro.s copys.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:46 pm rating: +12
#10
aaa
Lemme guess, this roomie is gonna be pissed when it turns out their weddings have the same colors and their kids have similar names. Grow the fuck up, fella.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm rating: +14
#11
QuarterRoy00
I think the e-mail recipient should take his coat back, but then get the exact same one this time…and follow his roommate around.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:51 pm rating: +27
#12
A-Sub
That’s a great idea! I should do it. I could copy everything about him and follow him around until he finally snaps and throws himself infront of a train.
I could, but there’s no way I’m letting those monsters at Fantastics Sam’s anywhere near my hair.
Jan 22, 2009 at 2:56 pm rating: +12
#13
Andy
Hulk ANGRY!!!!!!
Hulk throw hissy fit and return blue toggle pea coat to store!!!!!!
Jan 22, 2009 at 3:05 pm rating: +46
#14
Andy
You know, my buddy was talking about this pick-up tactic he uses at the bar with another friend of his:
He and his friend go to the bar wearing the exact same shirt and then stand at opposite ends of the bar. It works as a conversation starter because often women apparently point it out to one of them about the other.
I guess that’s how straight guys approach things like this. But clearly this note is unrelated.
Jan 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm rating: +22
#15
TPS
So what did the reply say? Don’t leave me hanging!
Jan 22, 2009 at 3:24 pm rating: +3
#16
plausibletheories
Well, I mean, you wouldn’t buy a skirt without asking your friends first if it looks good on you.
Jan 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm rating: +7
#17
GhostWriter
Obviously, our submitter was caught in the act of playing dress-up in his roommate’s blue toggle pea coat.
“Oh yes, they look similar, but see? Mine has my, umm… watch in my pocket!”
Jan 22, 2009 at 3:49 pm rating: +14
#18
secondsout
Wasn’t this a movie?
Start with dressing alike, then get the same haircut, then start freaking out when the boyfriend is back in the picture, then sleep with that boyfriend and subsequently try to kill him. Good film.
This pansy, though, sounds like he’ll be nowhere near that interesting. He’ll just cry about his coat.
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:20 pm rating: +14
#19
Goldie
I want to know what happened after he sent that email. He said he wanted to send it before he got any meaner. My conclusion is, he got meaner right after hitting the Send key. So what do you think happened? what’d he do?? I like to think a PedEgg was involved.
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:21 pm rating: +12
#20
Goldie
Another thing that no one commented on is that he didn’t say “you bought a coat that looks like mine”. No. He said, “you bought the same coat I did.” How do you buy the same damn coat? There’s only one way. 1) take the dude’s coat when he’s not home; 2) donate it to a thrift store; 3) buy it from there. I’d be pissed too!
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:24 pm rating: +7
#21
Flaboy2425
Well swish, jerk. Put your thumb in your mouth and sit in the corner where you can really be ignored. If you are going to think like a four-year-old girl, then act like one.
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:35 pm rating: +3
#22
The Commish
Maybe when the roommate takes his coat back, the sales person will throw in a pair of testicles as a “Thank You” gift.
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:37 pm rating: +23
#23
Olivia
I thought my days of retail slave were long over, but I would so apply to work for Burlington Coat Factory just so I could process that return. I’d make him fill out in detail the reason for the return. Then I’d call his roommate and tell him what coat he bought in exchange. Then I’d put an identical coat on hold for the roommate.
Jan 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm rating: +27
#24
amazon
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Jan 22, 2009 at 6:39 pm rating: 0
#25
~D
“i hate to bring this up, but i was watching you pee yesterday and i noticed that you do it pretty much the same way i do. standing up (except when i’m too drunk), a long stream followed by a couple of quick squirts, then three shakes. this troubles me deeply.
just saying.”
Jan 22, 2009 at 7:53 pm rating: +19
#26
mghn
I would just like to know how the conversation about the shoes went.
Guy: Hey, uh, nice shoes. Where’d you get ‘em?
Other Guy: WalMart (rolling eyes)
G: Great. I’m going to buy some.
(rising intonation making it a question)
or… do you think he actually asked?
What the hell?!
And, you’re going to return your coat? Do people really worry about these things?
Jan 22, 2009 at 8:32 pm rating: +1
#27
Andy
“So I wanna get something off my chest”…
Oh! Oh! I bet it’s sweaty taint stank!
Jan 22, 2009 at 9:44 pm rating: +5
#28
Lilly
Did he think that he bought the only one?
Jan 22, 2009 at 10:35 pm rating: +4
#29
racerx
long time reader first time …………
We all had the identical coats in the Navy and the braided piping was Fuckingdelicious
Jan 22, 2009 at 11:47 pm rating: +4
#30
Nit Picker
Oh wow. I can’t believe a man would bother to return something. I can’t even being to get my mind around the rest of it.
Jan 23, 2009 at 12:08 am rating: +2
#31
Anis
That’s what I call being secretely GAY
Jan 23, 2009 at 5:26 am rating: 0
#32
Amy
So pleased to see that we live in such enlightened tolerant times. And that institutionalised sexism [from women as well as men!] is still alive and well.
Jan 23, 2009 at 6:03 am rating: +7
#33
Rowdy
Why hasn’t TheOldSchool commented on this post yet? I mean just what the hell is going on?
Jan 23, 2009 at 6:32 am rating: +3
#34
Amy
*lol* fighting over pea coat’s??? What has the world come to!
Jan 23, 2009 at 7:36 am rating: +1
#35
Woman on the Verge
I would pretty much just be ashamed that I was dumb enough to buy a blue toggle pea coat in the first place.
Oh, I get it. He bought the coat so that his buddy would buy the same one. He keeps his in the closet so he can talk to all of their mutual friends about his roommate’s poor taste in clothes.
Did they buy those coats at GAP (Gay And Proud)?
Jan 23, 2009 at 7:58 am rating: 0
#36
Andy
Cleveland: The only British idiom I know is that “fag” means “cigarette.”
Peter: Well, someone tell this “cigarette” to shut up.
Jan 23, 2009 at 10:30 am rating: +7
#37
GhostWriter
Wait, is the coat or the toggles blue?
Jan 23, 2009 at 10:47 am rating: +1
#38
JoelWhy
Hey, stop copying me! I was wearing jeans first, so take ‘em off!
Jan 23, 2009 at 12:26 pm rating: +3
#39
Emma
Hm, I don’t know what to think about this one. I never like lending out clothes to my roommates in college, cuz it always seems a little ‘Single White Female.’
As for buying identical clothes, I would never buy the same thing as a roommate or friend unless I’d brought it up beforehand (i.e. ‘where did you get those jeans? I want some!’). Seems like if you don’t acknowledge it, it’s kind of creepy.
Sorry, but I have to side the the girly dude on this one.
Jan 23, 2009 at 4:03 pm rating: 0
#40
Canthz_B
♫ Mean boys,
Mean boys…
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do,
If I dress like you?
Return your clothes
To make an exchange?
Too late now you passed
the date range!
Mean boys!!
Mean boys,
Mean boys…
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do
If I dress like you?… ♫
Jan 24, 2009 at 1:24 am rating: +5
#41
HairySwede
five bucks says this guy is a vegetarian also.
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:31 am rating: +6
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