Small Things That Irritate II

There's no specific prompt for this from an event today, but one thing that utterly baffles me is how people who wear t-shirts bearing a slogan or writing on them seem to be utterly offended if you try and read said writing. While this is might be more predictable for females, who might perhaps interpret your reading of their garment as mere cover to closely peer at their chest, it's also surprisingly true for males who regard you attempting to read their clothing as a personal affront.

I do wonder what puzzles these people - is it the fact that people are reading the writing? Were they unaware that the t-shirt they were wearing had writing on it? It's a mystery.

The other day I - while wearing the classic descending-evolution t-shirt showing the ascent of man and then the descent of man into a chair before a computer - politely stopped as someone took a step back while staring at my t-shirt and then explained he was reading it. As he slowly read it out loud, he then asked of the slogan (somewhere, something went wrong) "what does that mean?". I fear the wit was wasted on him.