<p>Oh, my. I have a confession to make and it's not pretty.</p>
<p>I have 2 decals on each of my two cars, a sweatshirt from each of my kids' schools, AND two fleece blankets! Normally on Saturday, I put on one of the sweatshirts, wrap myself in a matching blanket, drive to the Walmart parking lot and stand behind my car, carefully positioned next to the appropriate decal. I just wait to see if anyone will ask about the school.</p>
<p>Not bragging; just showing school spirit.</p>
<p>^^^ I think it's defensible as long as it's not over 80 degrees while you wear the sweatshirt wrapped in the fleece blanket.</p>
<p>Where I live it's never over 80 degrees. (I love my fleece blankets - I wish the schools imprint their logos on those full body fleece thingies - I'd snap 'em up pronto!)</p>
<p>Kill two birds with one stone, gadad - get the car painted in school colors and put a big mascot emblem on the hood!</p>
<p>ok - I think this is a good opening to tell my annual school sweatshirt story.
Got a christmas card last year (or was it the year before). All four kids, each wearing an Ivy sweatshirt. One one goes there...other two go to state schools and one still in high school.
Uhggg...<br>
As far as I know, they don't require Ivy decals on all the family cars.</p>
<p>H and I just went with tattoos. Always in style, always appropriate!</p>
<p>toneranger, I'll be curious to see if the other kids are in the picture this year. Blech.</p>
<p>HarrietM -</p>
<p>Umm, decals go on the car's rear window, so...?</p>
<p>LOL, DadofB&G! We want pictures, HarrietM! Are they in the small of your back or on your shoulder?</p>
<p>I have a confession. I used to wear Tshirts that my husband would get for running 10K races. They were perfectly good shirts and he had so many that he couldn't wear them all. Why throw them out? </p>
<p>I don't think I could run a mile without barfing. I suppose I have committed some cardinal sin by wearing those shirts, haven't I...</p>
<p>I think any family member's t-shirts are fair game. I thoroughly enjoyed wearing D and S1's Whale Watch t-shirts while I was pregnant with S2. </p>
<p>jym, you silly woman: BOTH. And around both ankles, and across my knuckles. (That one fit really nicely. :D)</p>
<p>Tatoo across the knuckles...hmmm, could only have D or S go to a school with 4 letters in their name.</p>
<p>Army, Yale, UCLA, UCSD (in fact, ucla<em>ucsd</em>dad would be perfectly situated)...What a perfect way to build a college list! Sure beats the safety, match and reach concept...so boring.</p>
<p>Both hands, thumbs included, in our case. ;) But I really like that method of sorting. We'll use it for S2.</p>
<p>ellemenope - </p>
<p>As to wearing others' t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc: that's the puzzler, isn't it? Is it the act itself or the intention behind it?</p>
<p>I think we're going into the deep end of the pool, now.</p>
<p>OOOh, you have a tramp stamp (otherwise known as arse antlers or a Calif license plate) HarrietW? Pictures, we want pictures. </p>
<p>Someone should play with the finger tatoo spelling and see what they can spell out with 4, 8 or 10 letter colleges across the fingers</p>
<p>(A tiny part of me is dying inside at the notion that anybody might think I'm serious. Dying laughing, that is.)</p>
<p>Hey, I know a guy in my spinning class who is a doctor who has a 3 1/2 inch orange P and crouching tiger tatooed on his calf. Like a permanent car sticker! I asked him if he did that on a wild drunken nite in college. His response was "no, I did it about 5 years ago." He's over 55!!! For real!!! Guess where he went!!!</p>
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Ditto, HarrietW.</p>
<p>"Hey, I know a guy in my spinning class who is a doctor who has a 3 1/2 inch orange P and crouching tiger tatooed on his calf. Like a permanent car sticker! I asked him if he did that on a wild drunken nite in college. His response was "no, I did it about 5 years ago." He's over 55!!! For real!!! Guess where he went!!!"</p>
<p>Didn't George Schultz, former Sec of State, have a Princeton tiger tattooed on his rear?</p>
<p>ellemenope- the first time someone wants to know your time in the 10K you'll probably stop wearing the t-shirts! :) The real no-no is wearing the race t-shirt IN the race! You have to wait until you have completed the race. I remember in 1996 I practically bought an entire wardrobe that said "St. George Marathon" (Utah) at the pre-race expo, and at mile 15 the next day I was seriously wanting to quit the race. I told myself I couldn't quit, because I had all the clothes proclaiming the event! By Mile 18 I was rationalizing that I had paid the money and STARTED the race, so I could wear the clothes anyway. (I finished and did well and still proudly wear my St. George items)</p>