The Queen's Rambles

I really wish more places had decent plus sized shirts. We all know I have to miss out on the most fun things from Threadless and so forth. But that doesn’t make it sting any less when I really, really want something.

Cafepress has some nice plus sized shirts, but they are danged expensive. I need one, though! But they don’t have exactly what I want.

My MOMS Club has to do two service projects a year. This spring we will be packing lunches and handing them out to homeless people. Great, right? I voted for this.

Only it is through a church.

Fine, I can deal with that. It is not really “through” the church, so much as “facilitated” by the church. Lots of churches and other organizations in the community have a hand in this particular program, but it happens to physically take place at the church of one of our members. I was fine with this until we got a paper from the church about signing up and it had a big ol’ thing on there about how we were not only helping people; we were helping God.

That just makes me gag since I don’t even believe in God and if I did believe in God and I believed he was omnipotent, why the hell would he need my help making peanut butter sandwiches. If he was so concerned about the homeless people eating a meal he could make manna come out of the sky. I am not helping God. I have no interest in helping an imaginary friend. I am helping homeless hungry people.

So I want to be subversive and wear an atheist t-shirt during my shift, but I don’t want it to be offensive or even very obvious. I don’t have any need to wear a shirt that says “Suck it Jesus” since I don’t even believe in Jesus, or a shirt that is throwing the cross in the garbage can or has Jesus eating brains or riding a dinosaur. I also don’t really want to wear something that says “Proud Atheist” just because I don’t really think making big political statements around homeless people (who may or may not be mentally disturbed) is all that wise. All I want is a shirt that say “Good for Goodness’ Sake” or something similar. Not offensive or obvious or anything too out there. If you know that’s an atheist saying then you know, but if you don’t it might make you think a little. There was one that said “Proud Member of America’s Most Distrusted Minority.” I kind of liked that one, but not for that use.

I guess I’m going to have to make my own design. I am so not a designer.