It is National Smile Day, and contrarian that I am, I posted a new design with frowning faces. It made me wonder why they say "Let a smile be your umbrella" when frowns look more like umbrellas. And they keep people away. After spending maybe 16 hours over the last three days in airports or on airplanes, I lean more toward frowns than smiles.
I was in Austin, Texas picking up an award for an ad campaign from my day job. It was a national award so it was supposed to be an honor. But after a three-hour awards show I was never actually asked to go to the stage to accept the award (we won a silver and not a gold) and then when I went to pick up the award afterward, they couldn't find it. I posed for a photo with a borrowed trophy. They actual award turned up the next day just in time to put it in my carry on bag and trigger a search at the Austin Airport where they searched the trophy box lining for drugs or explosives. The one bright point was that I saw this t-shirt in a gift shop in the airport.
Our ad campaign this year is all about aliens and their dismay at only being able to move one cow at a time. So I bought the $30 shirt only to get home to discover that, despite getting a size that normally would fit me, I look like a Kelbasa. So the t-shirt went into a drawer just in case I lose some weight.
Once again I am reminded that the gods don't like us getting too cocky about things like awards. I've got a couple of bookcases full of them at my work office for almost three decades of work and the only one mildly impressed by them is moi. But let someone in Contracts get an award for outstanding contracting and it ripples through my agency like Moses parting the Red Sea.
I can't wait to retire and bask only in the laurels of my creative designs that seem to apeal to no one. But I did buy a couple last week (because I'm not sure a hair club member as the commercial used to tout). And I am very pleased with my D.B. Cooper t-shirts.
There is a certain amount of pleasure I take by being the only person in the world who is wearing one.
How exclusive.
How exclusive.
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