*this made my day* at a Michael's Arts & Crafts store

[underpants]

Last edited Fri Dec 22, 2017, 03:22 PM - Edit history (1)

My daughter and I went to get dowel rods to build what will become a pyramid - wrapping of her gifts.

We wonder around and end up in the section with letters for whatever you need them for I guess.

At the bottom of an open display something catches my eye.
I start giggling and my daughter says, "What?!?" and then she looks down and sees it too.

In black letters on a pink background someone had arranged them to say




FUCK
TRUMP

[niyad]

1. made my day as well!!

[Kirk Lover]

2. In my office my boss just said my daughter is failing science and I said don't worry

she can get a job in the tRUMP administration. Laughs were had by all.

[flamin lib]

3. I do that every time I see lettering displays. Nt

[Irish_Dem]

4. OK, I have to ask, you build a pyramid with dow rods to wrap gifts?

Unusual, but sounds kind of neat.

Edited to add: A friend of mine built a small pyramid in her home and meditates in it.

[underpants]

5. That's the plan

Gonna require a lot of duct tape

I got her a book she wanted and tshirts from her favorite band - 2 of which will arrive on the 28th

[Irish_Dem]

20. Why does she want to wrap presents in a pyramid?

Sorry, cannot let this go.
Most fascinating thing I have read all week.

[underpants]

24. She doesn't I just decided to do it

I get an idea and go with it. From wrapping a new bike so there was no doubt what it was (I've seen this done since on TV commercials) to using drinking straws to make balls or a swan - inside with a friend about art "It's a swan!!!" Etc.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Thank you, interesting! nt

[underpants]

45. Well I finished it

3' DOWEL rods. I used a piece of a pool noodle to secure the rods at the top. I had much thinner dowels at the bottom so I could get by with styrofoam on the corners. Duct taped it all to be sure. The base was bigger than the book (The Princess Bride coloring book - very detailed) so I used duct tape to create a base so the gifts weren't resting on the wrapping paper alone. Basically a triangle of rods with tape going across them.

Then the wrapping. I wrapped the bottom and two sides - just a really big stretch of wrapping paper- then I put the gifts inside ( two gifts are getting here late ) and finished it up. It was a bear. I couldn't turn the pyramid over at any part of this process. To get the paper taped underneath I put the whole thing on a chair, an ottoman, and a little table. I crawled under it to finish the taping.

Sorry no pics. Much more figurin' than I anticipated.

[Irish_Dem]

46. You should get an honorary degree in engineering for this project.

Amazing. I think the recipients will be surprised and delighted.

[Maraya1969]

29. First I thought that the Dowels were going to be used to hold the wrapping paper

But I could not understand why you wanted to make a wrapping paper devise in the shape of a pyramid!

Now I get it. You put the stuff inside and make a pyramid around it and wrap that and people think they are getting something different.

I like it!

[underpants]

30. Right

The dowels provide the structure.

[sdfernando]

7. I think he means dowl rods..not dow. /nt

[underpants]

8. Yep. Autocorrect. Edited. Thanks.

[Irish_Dem]

19. That is what I thought, but was not sure since I have not built a pyramid. nt

[procon]

10. What is a "dow rod"? nt

[underpants]

12. .

I meant and typed dowel in the OP but apparently it got autocorrected

[procon]

13. I was thinking it was a brand of craft products. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Made me smile!

Gives me ideas, too.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. tee hee

muwhahehahaha

[Maggiemayhem]

11. Last year

I saw this in the craft section at Walmart’s .

[MagickMuffin]

14. If one could stomach going into a Hobby Lobby

I could see this taking off!!!

[crazycatlady]

33. I went into one once

I'm an avid crafter. I am the person someone like Hobby Lobby should target. I knit (mostly in pink) and make jewelry to sell on Etsy.

I went in there once. I couldn't get past the hymns blaring on the PA system as opposed to the musak that most stores play. Maybe I'll go in there enough to rearrange the letters.

[oberliner]

15. That made your day?

I don't understand.

[mr_lebowski]

16. It's called a 'colloquialism' ...

Here, let me clue you in:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%20just%20made%20my%20day

Gee, ya learn something new every day, huh?

Or ... wait ... would you like a link to help you understand that obscurity as well?

[oberliner]

17. I've heard that expression before

I just don't understand why that would make a person's day.

[Jane Austin]

18. I think it's because it means the resistance

is everywhere.

[underpants]

26. Yes!

[RazBerryBeret]

42. and it's just funny

and unexpected!

[rzemanfl]

21. To each their own. n/t

[Sugar Smack]

22. We grab our morsels of joy where we can. Sometimes we look for weeks.

Public Editorials in the creative kids' section. I'm also a fan.

[underpants]

25. It just made me laugh

[Noodleboy13]

35. Cuz it's capricious, unexpected and a little naughty. ie. humorous.

So it might have sailed past you.

peace
Noodleboy

[onethatcares]

23. do this everywhere there are craft letters

walmart, joannes, michaels, potterybarn, and any other home craft stores.

Everytime I see something like this, it cheers my heart to know we are thinking alike.

[Soxfan58]

28. What

You don't go to Hobby Lobby.

[logosoco]

31. That would have made me laugh, too!

It's funny how things went right past "Dump Trump", which seems an obvious "slogan" straight to Fuck Trump (thinking of the woman who was harassed for having that on a sticker on her truck).

[shenmue]

32. Yay

[George II]

34. Someone did this at a store during the summer:

[FakeNoose]

36. Similar idea done at Target

[NastyRiffraff]

37. Great idea!

I plan on going to Michael's tomorrow. If I don't see a good letter arrangement, I'll do one myself!

I keep seeing DUMP TRUMP graffiti on city walls.

[kimbutgar]

38. Make me happy,made me smile.

[NoMoreRepugs]

39. Love it. I always try and hide any

arch conservative authors books in the Costco display... it just makes me feel good.

[crazycatlady]

43. Years ago there was a viral internet pic

of Sean Hannity's latest book placed next to Summer's Eve.

I like to place conservative books in the fiction section. Usually in scifi and fantasy.

[NoMoreRepugs]

47. I will try it on my next foray into the book area!!

[jpak]

40. Confess - you did it

[underpants]

41. No, I didn't.

Really.

[RazBerryBeret]

44. Seen on Street of NYC

earlier this year, had to stop and take a pic cause it made me laugh!



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