I’m Obsessed with Funny T-Shirts

I’m a grown-ass woman. In fact, I’m closer to 30 than I’m more comfortable with and my mother keeps telling me to dress like my age. Confession time: I don’t know how to dress my age. Shit, am I supposed to be shopping at Ann Taylor and stuff? It’d be one thing if I were working in Wall Street or something, but I’m… well, I’m an author. I work in my underwear with my hair uncombed and a bowl of ramen noodles on my stomach most of the time. Sometimes, I don’t even shower until Tim comes home from his corporate-ladder job, barges into my office, leans down to kiss me, and says, “Goddamn, you smell.” Why shouldn’t I wear funny t-shirts that crack me up when I look in the mirror? I’m a t-shirt and jeans girl. I don’t have a lot of pretty dresses or skirts… and my buddy Syd is going to shriek when she reads this, but… I only have 4 pairs of shoes, one of them a pair of really raggedy Birkenstocks. I’m just not… a fancy girl, I guess.

By the way, the picture above is not me. That is… a dude. And in case you can’t read the t-shirt, it says “My Other Ride is Your Mom” and I just bought it from Snorg Tees. Man, it’s going to go awesome with my favorite twenty-five dollar pair of ratty-ass Levi’s and my sixty-five dollar black and white Chuck Taylor All-stars, for real!

10 Responses to “I’m Obsessed with Funny T-Shirts”

  1. Ann(ie)
    1

    I’m not girlie either. I tried being glamorous when we first moved here. I got a manicure and pedicre every week, didn’t go anywhere without my designer stuff, and then realized I had no time left over to write. I was too busy being fabulous. Now I’m back to being scruffy and it works better for me.

    PS In Your Alibi, the heroine wears a shirt that says MORE COWBELL.

    I know. I rock.

  2. Rinda
    2

    Well, I’m 37 and I liked snarky shirts enough to create a store around ones for writers. And I wear them all the time. Some people appreciate the humor–some don’t. My son’s elementary school wasn’t amused by my “Feeling evil today. Be glad my weapon of choice is a pen.” shirt.

    But then, I was having to make a lot of doctor’s visits last year and they loved the shirts so much, I wore one at every visit. The first? “You interrupted my alien battle for this?” They didn’t get some of the ones in my dark snark section, though–like the vampire one. Honestly, that was more fun for me.

  3. Rinda
    3

    Heh, I have a “more cowbell” shirt.

  4. bam
    4

    ME TOO!! And a “dick in the box” t-shirt. It’s my favorite.

    Ann, connected to your excitement from earlier where you started singing “I’m So Excited,” I have a t-shirt that says “I’m SO EXCITED” above a bottle of caffeine pills and on the bottom, it says “I’m so scared!”

    It’s a SAVED BY THE BELL reference. From when Jessie Spano got addicted to caffeine pills ’cause she was trying to get into Stanford and have her girl-group Hot Sundae win a talent competition.

  5. Rinda
    5

    Oh! I gotta have a “dick in the box” shirt. Where?????

  6. bam
    6
  7. Rinda
    7

    Nice one. Nice price, too. That’s my one big gripe about putting my snark store at Cafe Press. Their base prices are higher than the sales price at Busted Tees. One of these days I might try to find a different place. Maybe when my writing slows. Yeah, right. (g)

  8. SharpBluntBimbo
    8

    Do you know $65 in my country’s currency is 650.000. No I’m not kidding. It’s half a million, babe!

    I’m a college student in a tropical country, I wear T-shirts with obscene words on it, denim shorts and $5 flip-flops. Once I showed up in class wearing a pair of full-length jeans and the lecturer commented that I’m fully dressed today. Heh.

  9. Dylan
    9

    LOL, I so remember that episode, Bam…when Jesse, Kelly and Lisa Turtle were in that girl band and they were singing, I’m So Excited and Zack was like their Manager or something?

    LMAO, oh I’m laughing again, I can hear it in my head! haha…

  10. Lady T
    10

    My dad used to get on my case about T shirts,too. Whenever I wore a Buffy the Vampire Slayer(which he thought was nothing but a “Teen ager show”) shirt or a Beavis and Butthead(had a really great one that was blackboard style with “huhhuhhuh” all over it and the guys in the bottom corner),He’d tell me to “dress like an adult”.

    I thought the whole point of being an adult was dressing the way you wanted to(in your off hours,of course)without hassles. Silly me!



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