along with waiting tables this side career with buffingtons sustained me for a while but being formerly athletic i still had an athlete 's appetite but not the workout regimen , and in time i got kind of complacent and fat ( i should say hefty since you could still see where the muscles were underneath the heft and could be reawakened with a little effort ) , but anyway i eventually had a sordid falling out with the buffington clan and found myself ousted from their ads and demoted to appearing as a member of the `` flannel family '' in ads for the local home-grown shabby retailer , tippins .