My low-grade celebrity status as editor of a community newspaper offered me the chance to judge an elementary school poster contest (theme "Keep Texas clean and green") this week. The Petite Filet was also asked to be a judge because she works for the district in the communications department. Our job, along with the other two judges, was to pick a winner from each grade level.
We agreed on kindergarten and first-grade entries – there was definitely a clear winner for each. Second-graders wigged out and didn't enter anything. Third-grade was somewhat cut-and-dried. But for the fourth grade, the entries weren't so much as good as they were sucky and poorly executed. We came to a tie between two entries (me and the PF were on opposite sides). Things got so "heated" that we had to bring in a mediator to help us break the tie. My choice won! Yippee! Oh, it still sucks. What is up with fourth-graders these days?
I got to eat two home-baked cookies (which were not bad) and I'll apparently be getting a T-shirt from the school. How is a grown man supposed to have self-respect and wear a shirt from an elementary school his kid doesn't attend? Maybe it will sprout a religious icon and I can sell it on e-Bay and tour Europe on the proceeds. Sure, T-bone.
T-shirts are the gimme caps of the 21st century. People with computers think they can automatically be graphic designers, and new printing processes makes custom-printed shirts extra cheap. Seems like my dresser is brimming with freebie-Ts ... from community litter pickups, 5Ks, special events, restaurants, elementary schools. Now, if only I could score a free iPod.
I think I'm considered a T-shirt snob. I collect cute and funny t's because I want something in my closet that says 'Utah, but I'm taller', but I never wear them! I put them on and hate their boxy shape and end up putting on a cute little sweater or something.
I love free t-shirts! They're great to wear around the house and when I actually work-out. I have shirts from things I can't even remember!
I won my first t-shirt on a vacation in a mall in Washington. It was a Coca Cola t-shirt. I love Coke and share it's birthday. How's that for babble?
I get a t-shirt for every single race I run in Central Park. I have t-shirts for prostate cancer, colon cancer, gay and lesbian pride, lung cancer, AIDS, JP Morgan/Chase and Poland Spring.