these kids are going to come around — or they’re not

loved the fresh air with paul reubens:

REUBENS: …And then we moved to Florida. And moving to Florida was, like, incredible. I thought we moved to Hawaii. I thought we were in the tropics or something. And my mother took us to go get back-to-school clothes. And I bought all these beachcomber outfits. So I showed up for the first day of school in fourth grade in Florida with, like, clamdigger pants on and these nautical shirts and — like a total freak.

And the kids at school were like, What are YOU supposed to be? And the thing that was funny about it in hindsight is, like, normally in that kind of situation I think the kids would probably — you would probably go like, Oh, oh, sorry. You know, I didn’t know what it was — but me, I was totally like, Don’t you get it? You know, I’m a beachcomber. What’s wrong with you guys?

And instead, like, the next day, I, like, put out another variation of the same outfit and put it on and got back to school and was like, You know, these kids are going to come around or they’re not — whatever. But I’m not changing.