and the T-Shirt Award Winner Is...

While wandering around the USU football stadium a few weeks ago I saw this t-shirt and couldn't resist snapping a picture of it. It made me giggle as I envisioned some kidnappers trying to scoop up this old guy and chuck him into the back of a truck. Somehow I don't think being kidnapped should be on his list of ligitimate fears.
T-shirts are incredible things. I've heard it said that you can get people to do almost anything for a free t-shirt. I know I've participated in lots of activities just to get a t-shirt. At one time I had 12 corporate games shirts in my closet from several years worth of participating in activities from bowling to softball to indoor computer golf. Oh, once I even participated in what I consider to be the WORST corporate games activity of all. No, its not the karaoke contest(which is pretty bad) but the company tug-of-war. Ugh, I HATE that activity. I think I was asked to participate in it because I would be a good anchor. Or in other words, I could legitimatly wear a t-shirt that said, "I'm not fat, I'm just hard to kidnap." Enough said about that.
The favorite t-shirt that I currently own in one that is no longer appropriate to wear outside the walls of my own home. It is the 2002 Olympic shirt I got at the Medals Plaza---long-sleeved and North Carolina blue. Unfortunately, it has been so well loved that it is all stretched out and holey due to the multiple washings it has had to endure over the past 5 years. I heard someone say one time that a t-shirt should never have dates on it; ie. "2002 Winter Olympic Games." On the contrary, I think a t-shirt is a wearable travel log so that others can see where you've been and what you're interested in. For example, my newest t-shirt is from the 2008 "Pirate Run or Walk the Plank" fundraiser, and my oldest t-shirt is from 1997 Chicago Cubs baseball season with a caricature of Harry Caray on the back singing "I'm a Cub Fan and a Bud Man." All of my t-shirts have special sentimental value. In fact, when I sort through my clothes to make a DI run I have to put the t-shirts in a pile and wait for a few months to see if I really am ready to part with them.
And that's how I feel about t-shirts.