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Can you Trust Your Brother From the Same Mother?

When Is a Shirt Defective? (C 2025)  By Hank Brooks

 I have gotten older (age 83 at this writing), I have put on a few pounds.  I even mentioned to my younger brother Mike, that I had bent over to pick something up and had a hand time getting up.  So good naturally he gifted me with a shirt which says across the front, “Help I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up”.  I told our son Jeff about the shirt and he said that I have been given a defective shirt.  “How so?” I ask.  He said that the sign requesting help was only on the front of the shirt.   If I fell and landed on my stomach, people could not read the sign.  Therefore, the shirt sign does not meet OSHA standards.  So I went back to Mike and asked for my money back (it was a gift).  He replied by saying that I could have back all the money I had invested in it.  He then told me that he could easily fix the OSHA defect.  He took a wide strip of “duct tape” and wrote, “If found, please roll over.’  He then instructed that I put this on the back of the shirt.