The story starts with a very controversial t-shirt that my friend had bought online, thinking it was hilarious he bought it and decided to wear it when we both went shopping. Before I go on, his shirt read "Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco: Whose Bringing The Chips?", if from memory I'm not mistaken!
Back on topic, we went into JB-HiFi and one of the employees in the store asked for us to get out, not knowing what was going on I asked what the problem was. The store clerk answered and said that there had been many customer complaints about my friends t-shirt and we needed to leave the store. Thinking that this was ridiculous, my friend put up an argument, stating that it was just a shirt and no harm was coming out of wearing it. But the store clerk in the end, got her supervisor and he politely asked us to leave.
Now to be quite honest, I think that whole experience was disappointing, because to think that there had been a lot of customer complaints just because of a "controversial" t-shirt my friend decided to wear. In my opinion, there was no rude remarks stated on that t-shirt directed at anyone in particular, it was just a piece of clothing with dry humour marked on it, nothing more. Now if it was something more like this that I found on a t-shirt website, "Keep it Flying" referring to the "redneck hillbillies" which I think is horrible, and this can cause much controversy. Also, there was another t-shirt that I found awful that stated "Talk Shit, Spit Blood". Now people can have every right to complain about that shirt as it is displaying a bit of violence with no humour intended.
I don't understand why people have gotten so sensitive about specific subjects nowadays, but I think that some just need to lighten up and have a laugh, of course this is circumstantial! Making sure that the piece of clothing is within taste, and that it isn't racist or abusive.
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