A Tee-Shirt Too Far

Once again it was the weekend and so we headed for the beach, this time to Rio Del Mar which has a nice promenade that we could all cycle along. Unfortunately, as we unpacked the bikes, Alexander opened one of our car doors into the car parked next to us, making a nice round dent. The lady owner came back just as we were surveying the damage. We apologized and from chatting with her, found out she was English (from Liverpool). We were in luck- we exchanged phone numbers and she said that all she thought was necessary was to get the paintwork touched up. Phew!

Our ride along the seafront terminated back at the car just as the lady returned from walking her dog. She introduced me to her friend who came from Essex and we talked up an ex-pat storm; right until the lady asked me about my tee-shirt.

Now I hadn’t worn the tee-shirt in question for some time- back in 1999 politics were rife in the US part of the company where I worked. It was tough time and I got through it by wearing this tee-shirt whenever I had to deal with people in the sales group. Today, when I got up, I looked in the closet and there was the shirt, just lying there saying “Wear Me! Wear Me!” It had some fond memories and I decided to put it on.

"So what does your shirt say?" asked the lady with dented car and the big dog.
"Er, This is binary computer code for characters." I replied.
"Yes, I work for Apple. What does it say?" came the retort.
"Er….YOU ARE DUMB" I replied looking at my sandals.
We look forward to the bill.