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Has your Woot shirt ever tried to kill someone? Mine did...

Dec 13, 2011 9:45 PM

So I was heading home from a failed Hannukah shopping, and about to step off the T (boston transit, for those who were wondering) when a woman turns to me and says "Is that a Doctor Horrible shirt?" At the time I was wearing my Doctor Adorable shirt, so I replied, "Why yes it is!"

As we walked onto the platform, our conversation continued:
"where did you get it?" she inquired.
"Woot.com. It's-" I replied and attempted to start my rehearsed plug for woot, but was interrupted.
"Ah, so then it's been reckoned..." she interjected, clearly knowing what woot was.
As we walked into the street, we started talking about Random Shirts, and I said she should go for it and then rather nonchalantly pointed behind her and stated "You should watch out for that car." The car was seconds from hitting her.

She turned as the car came to a screeching halt. The driver, annoyed, waved us on to cross. As we parted, I said "take care", to which she replied "Thanks for saving my life!"

Continued...

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So obviously this was my most interesting IRL woot experience. Can you beat my story?

abramokids abramokids
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Holey Amazeballs! You are awesome and keep being that way.

All my shirts get me is really puzzled looks from these sensitive backwoods folk.

xarous xarous
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LOVED this story! :D I've never been so lucky as to have an interesting IRL Woot experience. But I suspect the "Make It So" shirt I just ordered might garner some attention!

heyjoie heyjoie
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No, my woot shirt didn't try to kill someone. I, on the other hand, considered grievous physical harm to someone. Was wearing my Fox t; a neighbor asked about it. Coyly, I said I used to be quite a 'fox.' He said, "Really?? You're clearly decades beyond that." I held my temper. Barely.

gmwhit gmwhit
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My Chucknorium shirt exploded and killed 7 people. I guess it's not really as interesting a story though

capguncowboy capguncowboy
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Not as interesting as yours... But a good friend of mine was given "The Binge" by 3 different people in the same year. He'd never heard of woot before then.

thumperchick thumperchick
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obviously the person driving the car had to be wearing a "Captain Hammer" shirt from Threadless. pffttt ;-)

w00tgurl w00tgurl
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@thumperchick: Maybe they were trying to hint at something? That milk & cookies habit out of control perhaps?

lavikinga lavikinga
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@lavikinga: Sort of. He's in shape and good health. But he has a compulsion problem. If there's a bowl of candy in front of him, he'll eat it until it's gone - he does that with everything. So yeah, we were all making fun of him. He somehow manages this well overall (or his wife portion controls everything in the house...)

thumperchick thumperchick
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I don't have too many yet...though I did find someone in China that recognized one of my shirts and asked "That is woot shirt?". Haha Maybe I can open the market up over here :)

dmaz dmaz
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I wore my electrical sockets are watching you shirt the other day and several people asked me if I worked at the electric company. o_0

I should have warned them of the dangers of electricity and then maybe my shirt could have saved some people....oh well.

That so wasn't on topic was it?

jandk113 jandk113
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Boss shirt, Boss.

llamabox llamabox
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People look at my shirt of the DeLorean hitting the Tardis with puzzled glances. Either they know Back to the Future and nothing of Doctor Who or they are just plain oblivious about why there's a car hitting a blue box... fun times!

olleewood olleewood
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I saw the "Meh" shirt at Cedar Point. The End.

jsoko jsoko
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No, but my guitar wants to kill your mama.

urocyon urocyon
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No, but a Woot! shirt got me laid one time.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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No but a novelty shirt almost got my friend into a fight....in the entrance to Disney World no less. First day at Disney and just walk thru the train station at the entrance to the Magic Kingdom looking at castle when a guy walks over to my friend and starts screaming in his face "he's a killer...do you know what he did...he's a killer man a killer" while pointing his finger about 6 inches from his eye. I have no idea what is going on but am getting ready to slug this guy....in the entrance to Disney World the happiest place on earth....because this guy is going ballistic and honestly seemed like he was on the verge of attacking my friend. My friend then simply laughed in his face and walked away with me waiting to see if the guy is gonna charge at his back. As I am about to ask him what the hell that was about I then notice he is wearing a Che Guevara shirt.

raider9924 raider9924
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@wickedd365: That's a story I'd be interested to hear

abramokids abramokids
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@abramokids: Not that interesting. The shirt sparked the conversation that got her interested. We had fun, that was all.
Turns out she was dumb.

Sorry, nothing amazing.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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@wickedd365: Hey! Whatever works!

abramokids abramokids

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