I Can't Believe I Missed the Cause

I was at Hollywood Video the other night because they are closing down, and movies are 60% off.  Which makes core movies a mere $3.99 so I figured I might as well stock up.  So I'm at the checkout and the guy ringing me up is probably in his early 20s, tousled hair, glazed eyes and adament boredom.  This guy is so obviously offended by my even being present in the store that he can't waste the time to notice I exist.  The most remarkable thing, though, is his t-shirt.  Specifically it says "Zombie Response Unit" with weapons, blood stains, and the words "Locate, Decapitate, Incinerate". 

Now come on.  You see a shirt like this, you get a little intrigued, right?

So I say, "That's an interesting shirt" and he immediately perks up.

"Yeah, I bought this for Zombie Awareness Month!"

Oh?  Zombie Awareness Month, eh?  I must've missed that 5K. 

Having recently viewed the film Zombieland, on the recommendation of Hayley at Gone With the Twins, I now consider myself meagerly knowledgeable of zombies.  Plus, I frequent the site Zombierunner.com, where you can stock up on all your ultrarunning needs.  So I throw him a crumb of zombie knowledge.

"There's this website called Zombierunner.com for runners.  They have t-shirts that say Zombies are were people too."

My new zombie task force friend says, "Oh that's so cool.  I'm gonna check that out man.  During Zombie Awareness Month everyone wore gray ribbons all month".

I am just so clueless.  Here I made it through the ENTIRE month of May and didn't even NOTICE that I was surrounded by people wearing gray ribbons for the cause.  How could this happen?

According to zombieresearch.org, the gray ribbon signifies undead shadows that lurk behind our modern light of day.

Now I know, and so do you.  SO MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOLKS!  Knowledge is power, and next May we'll be wearing our gray ribbons and sporting our own "What you don't know can eat you" t-shirts.  You won't want to miss it!