Why I always wear Ohio State stuff...

As people meet me, they will invariably notice that I always have some form of Ohio State gear on my person.  It is just something that I do.  I cannot be back home, so I carry home with me.  Whether it is a buckeye in my pocket or a bumper sticker on my car that states, “ my two favorite teams are Ohio State and whoever is playing Michigan”.  ha ha.
I love my state and am proud to be from Ohio even if I did not have the pleasure of attending the school.  I tried to get my daughter to go and she declined.  She told me that she would never attend class because she got lost on the school tour.... pity that, but at least she learned the O-H-I-O arm movements...
My son finally figured out why I have so many OSU T shirts.  When we went home last November, it was the weekend of the Ohio-Michigan game.  If you went out in pubic, it was a sea of red and gray.  Every grocery store had Ohio State displays and anti Michigan displays.  There is no other state that I know of that has such a strong support for their school as Ohio.  I tend to miss my state in the fall most.
My consolation is that there are four buckeye trees in the O’Fallon city park.  I gather buckeyes to take to my job.  I noticed that a lot of patients carried buckeyes in their pockets.  I take them so that more patients can have them although I had one individual that didn’t want “no damn Ohio buckeye” so I had to assure him that they were real Illinois buckeyes... that was fun.  Then he found out that I was from Ohio and it got interesting.  We ended up agreeing that at least neither of us was from Michigan.     lol!!!!!!