Through the Orioles have not contended for a playoff spot in over 10 years, I'm still a big O's fan.  Last weekend I headed over to Oriole Park at Camden Yards with some friends to watch the O's play the Devil Rays.  I wore an Orioles hat and then had to figure out which shirt to wear.

After running through my array of tees, my eyes landed on our I slid into third at Rachel's Bat Mitzvah tee shirt, a classic Crooked Monkey bat mitzvah Baseball t-shirt, and I knew I had a winner.

When you own a clothing company, there's really a t shirt for every occasion. 

We just got a great email from a customer. He wrote:
Hello Crooked Monkey,

First of all, you guys rock. Hilarious t-shirts.
Second: why are some of the best t-shirts retired? If you guys would un-retire both the 'math/chem "i have problems, i have solutions t-shirt" ' and the 'i slid into 3rd at Rachel's bat mitzvah t-shirt' I would buy them.

Thanks!

Every now and then we explain the idea behind Retiring shirts. We'll do it again here.

In order to keep our site fresh, we are always coming out with new t-shirts. And to make room for these new shirts, we need to retire the older guys. This doesn't mean we don't love them, or that we've forsaken them.

On our new website (to debut in 9 months) we'll have an option to vote those shirts back in, so we can reproduce the shirts you guys love. Because to be honest, the "I slid into third at rachel's bat mitzvah" is one of my all time favorite t-shirts.

Our t-shirt, Waking up is hard to do T-shirt, is based on the song "Cause breaking up is hard to do," so it was no surprise when we got an email from one of our customers the other day asking for our return policy.

She told us that she had purchased two Crooked monkey t-shirts and needed to return them because from the time she ordered the shirts until she received them, her relationship status on Facebook went from "In a relationship" to "single."

That's not the first time that happened. The same girl that wrote and composed "I got dumped for Obama" also got dumped 3 years ago. Her name is Rachel, and she bought our "I slid into third at rachel's bat mitzvah" t-shirt. And this was in the beginning days when we didn't keep stock. It took us about 4 weeks to ship it, and by then she had been dumped (for another girl) and canceled her order.

A few valuable lessons: A)Crooked Monkey makes great gifts for boyfriends. B)When you get dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend, come to Crooked Monkey. We now have a dumpee discount. Type in dumpee at checkout and get 15% off at checkout. But you better be able to prove that you're newly single.