Senior’s T-shirts draw laughs

On one of senior Wesley Chaffin’s shirts, three cartoon boys roast their hot dogs and one of the boys’ weiners falls into the camp fire. “It’s all fun and games until someone loses a weiner,” the shirt proclaims.

This comical shirt is one of many in Chaffin’s collection, started in seventh grade. Chaffin’s dad came across the website shirt.woot.com and asked if Chaffin would like to have a “random funny shirt.”

“Every day that he found a shirt he thought I'd appreciate, he'd just ask me if I wanted to get it,” Chaffin said. “They sell one shirt every day for $10, so you have to be fast if you like one.”

Chaffin also has a shirt that is scattered with images of video game controllers and often engages his peers by asking them to “recognize as many controllers as possible.”

However, Chaffin’s favorite shirt in the collection is a shirt depicting a banana knocking on a door, followed by two bananas and an orange. The shirt visually depicts the knock-knock joke with the punch line “Orange you glad I didn’t say banana.”

“Sometimes people don't get the shirt so I start telling them the knock-knock joke,” Chaffin said. “But sometimes, people don't know what a knock-knock joke is, so then things get hilariously awkward.”

Another memorable moment Chaffin remembers was when he was wearing a shirt with the night sky and constellations drawn on it.

“My aunt saw me wearing the constellations shirt and thought I had a special love for stargazing and wanted me to go to some special stargazing event,” Chaffin said.

Chaffin enjoys wearing specific shirts on different occasions. To science class, Wesley enjoys wearing his shirt that spells out science using the periodic elements. On days with physics tests, Chaffin wears his tye-dye shirt, which he made when he finished retired science teacher Bob Kucer’s Chemistry Honors class, because ”it is infused with the power of Kucer.”

“If I am running out of shorts, it dictates what shirts I wear because I like to be fashionable and match my outfit,” said Chaffin, jokingly.