I just returned from a few days away on picturesque Prince Edward Island (the smallest of the Canadian provinces). PEI is renowned for many things - red sandy beaches, lobster dinners, golf courses, potatoes, being the place where the Founding Fathers of Confederation met and formed Canada (uniting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario & Quebec - ironically, PEI took a few years to join up)...and, most famously, PEI is known for being where the "Anne of Green Gables" books were written/took place. You can't swing a pizza in PEI without hitting something "Anne" related, especially this year, the 100th anniversary of the publishing of the stories.
But that's not why I write. PEI has also been given the distinction of having the best ice cream in Canada, coming from a place called COWS. It is good ice cream, albeit a tad pricey. Now, Cows also puts out humourous merchandise - tshirts/sweatshirts/etc, where they take popular culture and put a cowish twist on them. For instance, take a cow, put on brown hair, round glasses and give him a lightning scar and whattya got? Dairy Potter! Or a blonde wig and you've got singing senstation Hannah Mootana. Cows in the City, anyone? How's about Sydney Cowsby? Pirates of the Cowibbean?
Ok, given how much I like puns, you can imagine that I do appreciate going to this store. This trip, however, made me laugh all the more. As we were going into one of their stores, on a boardwalk, I glanced about 20 feet away, at the carts that were selling off "Seconds" of the t-shirts. Something...well, something caught my eye. Looked inside the store and didn't see it, so I beelined for the Youth table as soon as we got outside the store.
And here's what I found...
Front of the shirt:
Back of the shirt:
Can I wear it? No way, waaaay too small for me. But, at $10, there was no way I could leave it behind!! My friend, Sandra, just shook her head that I noticed it, half buried under a pile of shirts, in the first place.
