When I was a reporter I had my first child. It was a slow news day. I think it was a Saturday and another reporter and I were just talking the day away while listening to the police scanner.
He said he was never going to have children because the world was such an awful place. I laughed and said I at least wanted to field a basketball team. He was quite simply aghast. I’m not kidding you when I tell you that he honestly believed that I was wrong to even contemplate such a thing. Don’t I care about the world? Overcrowding? Global warming?
At the time I just laughed because I thought that would annoy him. I know. I know. I try to be a good person but sometimes I just have to tweak the looney tunes secularists a little bit so I said maybe I’d make it a baseball team.
Now as a father of five children I have actually been approached by absolute strangers who ask me point blank in front of my children if “I’m done.” It’s unbelievable but true. Some people after a few niceties have inquired whether I cared about the planet at all?
I’ve never known exactly what to say…that is until yesterday when a frequent visitor on this blog named Meg upped the tweaking ante by creating the perfect t-shirt for just such a situation. It’s hilarious. Go visit her site at Promo Presto if you’re interested. She actually makes t-shirts. No matter what though I thought many of you would get a kick out of it.
April 9, 2008 at 3:49 am
What? Only five??? Let’s get busy, man. We’ve got a whole world to repopulate with Catholics. It’s time to GET DOWN!!!
To the matter at hand. Yeah, that’s what I meant.
April 9, 2008 at 5:41 am
I’ve told my pregnant wife not to expect a lot of turn-around time…outbreed!
April 9, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Love it, Meg! Does it come in maternity sizes?
April 9, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Tina, it sure does – we think that’s a very appropriate way to wear it.
April 9, 2008 at 4:13 pm
by having more children, are we not simply diversifying the genepool – thereby making humanity more adaptable in the event of natural disaster or climate change?
April 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“are we not simply diversifying the genepool”
Sexy.
“c’mon honey, let’s go diversify the gene pool!’
April 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm
It gives diversity training a whole new look. Would probably be a lot better attended.
April 9, 2008 at 5:42 pm
My favorite is a shirt which reads on the front, “Before you even ask”. . .and has a list of comeback on the back. It saves you a lot of time with ignorant tree huggers
April 10, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Since plants need CO2, we could say we are “Saving the rain forests, one breath at a time.”
Sometimes we are just doing more for the Environment.
April 13, 2008 at 11:03 am
To those people, just suggest to them they should committ suicide if they are really concerned about Global warming etc
Ask them “which one of my kids has a less right to make a carbon footprints than you??”