Friday, 31 May 2013

How far am I willing to go? (part 2)



Shortly after Day 93 I wrote a post outlining an email exchange I'd had with a print company based all the way over in the States who were keen to donate not one, not two, but a million T-shirts to my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge. They were very enthusiastic when describing the bins upon bins they are surrounded by daily which are clogged up with T-shirts that they have no idea what to do with. They've tried lighting them on fire, dressing them on passing seagulls; even eating them out of sheer despair, but the plague of T-shirts simply will not subside.
Eventually word of my challenge reached the ears of the print firm and they offered to send me all of them.....

....until they discovered that I was based in the UK.

It transpires their shipping policy does not currently cater for international delivery, so I was left trying to devise a way of getting that glorious heap of T-shirts across the ocean - literally moving a mountain.

Plan A was to try the seagulls again, but after the weight of the T-shirts sent most of them plummeting to their deaths in the sea, we moved swiftly onto Plan B - a mirror.

Back in January I flew out to Las Vegas to complete some design work for Samsung. It was here that I became friends with Ian, the creator and owner of online racing channel Torn TV. I explained my predicament to Ian and he offered to act as a mirror; the print firm would send him the goods which he would then find means to send to me.

Today, a suitably large box with my name and international shipping credentials on it confirms that Ian found those means.

I've excitedly ripped the package open and had a quick root around to find no less than 24 T-shirts inside (along with a number of other promotional goods), each more weird and wonderful than the last. They've sent me virtually a whole month's worth!
This tremendously generous donation to my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge is merely what was skimmed off the top of those T-shirt vats, and has given my challenge a massive adrenaline injection - the biggest donation yet!
I can now coast along comfortably on these tees without fear of the challenge fizzling out for a while, which is a huge relief to both me and the global seagull population.

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