While Joe astutely noted the scam in the idea behind "winning" for items you actually still pay (and probably overpay) for, my package came today. And it is a representation of another popular scheme: novelty shirts. You can put whatever you want on a shirt. Any color. Any design. Any type of shirt. Anything. And Facebook ads always seem to direct me to these novelty shirt sites. And I love the humorous designs. No matter how juvenile or self-referential or politically incorrect, I love the designs. I have very few photos of myself, so I substitute a real photo of myself on Facebook with random shirt designs. Part of this is knowing that $20 for a funny shirt plus shipping is dumb, because it takes $5-10 for a company to buy a blank shirt and iron on their design which will immediately deteriorate the moment I put this shirt in my washing machine. Yet the other thing holding me back is knowing that I should be too old to publicly wear such shirts, especially in public where even outside of school I guess I'm expected to have some degree of mature professionalism about me.
So with those two considerations, after some research, I found a shirt that was practical (I need a new sweatshirt, and this had a hood and nice warm fleece on the inside), I found a cheap deal, and I found a humorous design that I wouldn't be embarrassed (I'm actually quite proud) to wear out in public, or even put over my dress shirt in class on a school day when the building is freezing. So, I now have a new shirt, and coincidentally, the photo I took to share with you all is so utterly ridiculous, that it will become my new Facebook photo as well.
