I brought my Jetta in for servicetoday… should be the last trip before I my lease ends and I turn it in, so that was all whoo hoo and stuffs. I also realized that I’m going to have to renew my registrations, even if I haven’t gotten a reminder yet… meh. Anyway, I dropped the GLI off with instructions for “just an oil change” – whenever this dealership touches something else for service (i.e. the tires) I end up making three to five follow up visits – and decided to wait for it over at Tully’s. After an hour I walked back in, past a customer at the counter, and went to the cashier to pick up my keys. She looked up at me, and then my t-shirt and say “Whoa.”

I had to look down because, frankly? I forgot what I was wearing…

I don’t have a huge collection of strange t-shirts but I have enough of them to make strangers notice them… the worst was wearing my Red vs Blue Red Army t-shirt when the Chinese president was on campus at work – huge oops, that. Wearing the one that states “Dirty American Devil” in Japanese was always a hit in Yankees Stadium. The “geek” one usually gets a laugh around Redmond. Around work, I get a lot of questions about my latest new one from AppleGeeks – it’s a huge power symbol: people ask me “what happens if I hit the power button?” to which I reply “I power down?” So yeah, I had to look and see what got a reaction.

I was wearing my Baka ^ Ni shirt from Megatokyo.com. The cashier mentioned that she hadn’t seen anything like that before today… I say “Ah, it’s Japanese… baka means idiot, so it’s idiot squared. Not like a bad idiot, mind. Kinda like ‘*rolls eyes* stupid‘ meaning.” She laughs and says “yeah, I wouldn’t have known that but at first when you walked in, I thought you were that guy’s reflection” and she points to the guy at the other counter.

Yep. Another Baka ^ Ni shirt was clearly on display.

And to that I say whoo hoo. If this keeps up, Fred won’t have to worry about getting that new MacBook after all…

Good to see web comics flourishing, no?