Forum Overview :: Still Life :: I never did say how this went

[quote name="Rafiki"]So I needed a Hawaiian shirt, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on ugly clothing I'd never wear again. The most obvious place to shop: Wal-Mart. But it's too white trash and I'm too much of a snob, so I went to Target instead. For $19.99 I found a jet-black shirt with some palm tree and tropical print on it that was so dark you could barely see it unless you were standing right next to me. <i>Perfect.</i> I could claim to be participating in our team building exercise, and no one further than 8 feet away would get the uncontrollable urge to kick my ass. I was quite proud of myself for cheating the system until I got the shirt home, because then my insecurity started setting in. With the pattern so hard to see I was afraid I would get singled out in front of everybody for NOT participating, and then everyone would laugh and throw donuts at me until I started crying and quit my job out of embarassment. At this point I noticed a tag attached to the shirt that read "HAWAIIAN BAY" in big red letters. I stuck it in my wallet to take it in to work with me in case I was challenged, and began fantasizing about the smuggest way to totally shut some motherfuckers down. Now my plan was <i>bullet proof</i>. The next day everyone was sitting around the meeting room in their bright, gaudy Hawaiian shirts (fucking rubes) when I noticed someone across the room wearing a suspiciously familiar jet-black shirt. During a break I walked over and the guy was wearing the <i>exact same shirt.</i> We traded some office zingers, and then he reached into his pocket, pulled out a tag, and said, "And I brought this in just in case no one believed this was a Hawaiian shirt." I nearly tried to double high-five him in front of everybody. Best Hawaiian shirt day ever. EPILOGUE: There was a contest where everyone had to choose the 2 best Hawaiian shirts. The prize was a gallon of Hawaiian Punch (GET IT?!?!?!??!?!). Luckily I didn't win, because then I would have had a gallon of Hawaiian Punch.[/quote]