Hooker tee-shirt chronicles

Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.(Screenshot by BobbaLew.)

—I’m told my Hooker Headers tee-shirt has caused some of the ladies at the Canandaigua YMCA swimming-pool to take offense. Though no fence was offered.
I do aquatic balance-training in that swimming-pool, an hour-long class two days per week, then a third day on-my-own.
On-my-own is Saturday, and I did so two Saturdays ago, wearing my Hooker Headers tee-shirt. I have a large collection of tee-shirts, and “Hooker Headers” is one. My tee-shirts are common daywear, and I use one in that swimming-pool.
“It’s not what you think it is,” I said. “Hooker is the manufacturer. Exhaust manifolds (headers) on cars are usually cast-iron, which is heavy. Cast-iron exhaust manifolds are usually more restrictive. You can’t cast good exhaust flow.
Hooker makes exhaust headers out of steel tubing, which is much lighter, and less restrictive. —But they also rust quickly,” I said.
“Tubing headers are common to drag-racing,” I added.
“Don’t tell me about manifolds,” a lady said.
“I guess I better not wear this tee-shirt,” I commented.

• Drag-racing is standing-start to finish over a paved, flat two-lane quarter-mile drag-strip. Two cars race side-by-side, and the car that finishes first wins.