As anyone that has spent time outside of work with Bruce will know, he is particularly fond of t-shirts with US references on - from cities to sports teams. Understandably, wearing these while on vacation in the US sparks a lot of interesting conversations...
Here are three incidents from our most recent trip:
1. The "Say Yes to Michigan" shirt
Guy in his late 20s stops Bruce and asks if he minds if he takes a photo of him. Because his girlfriend is from Michigan and she'd love his t-shirt. He apologised for being weird. I said that was not as weird as the fact that Bruce has never even been to Michigan.
Wearing this shirt usually prompts people to shout YES at Bruce as well.
2. The Packers shirt
Middle aged guy with son says "I hear [insert football player's name here} got beat up pretty bad last night" to Bruce. Bruce responds by saying he didn't actually see the game and then reveals to me that he's never even heard of the player.
I can only assume that the guy was also pretty surprised by Bruce's accent!
Wearing this shirt usually prompts people to shout GO PACKERS at Bruce. Of course, the next day he'll probably be wearing a Buffalo Bills shirt. No favourites here!
3. The NYC shirt
The first class lounge at JFK is pretty nice. It was basically full of businessmen off on trips to Europe for the week ahead - i.e. looking pretty smart. I was the only female in there for about two hours. We looked a state and I think it would be fair to say that I'm probably the first person ever to sit in that lounge catching up on TOWIE for 3 hours straight.
But Bruce was wearing his NYC t-shirt... so looked very much the tourist!
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