Stop Being Such An Asshole T-Shirt — Vintage 1960s Retro Police Officer Humor Tee — Rod Shop Collective

Stop Being Such An Asshole

There is a decal on the wall of a garage in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been there since approximately 1960-something — the exact year lost to history the way the best garage wall finds always are — and it features a smiling police officer with his hand raised in the universal stop gesture and a message below it that is so direct, so cheerful, and so completely correct about the state of human behavior that it has survived six decades on a garage wall without losing a single degree of its original relevance.

The message is still right. The officer is still smiling. The hand is still up.

Some things do not need to be updated. They just need to be on a shirt.
The Stop Being Such An Asshole tee is a direct tribute to that decal — the vintage 1960s retro illustration style, the smiling officer, the hand raised, the bold block lettering delivering a public service announcement that is simultaneously the most obvious and most under-followed advice in the history of human interaction. It is cheerful. It is direct. It is exactly the kind of thing that a person who has spent any amount of time dealing with other people will put on their chest and wear with the particular satisfaction of someone who has been waiting a long time for the right shirt to say the thing they have been thinking.

This is that shirt.

It is not mean. The officer is smiling. Nobody is in trouble. This is a friendly reminder — the kind that comes with a grin and a raised hand and the gentle but firm suggestion that the world would be a measurably better place if everyone in it took the advice printed below the badge. The vintage illustration style borrowed from the golden era of American public service graphics gives the whole thing the authority and the charm of an official announcement from a more straightforward time — a time when a smiling police officer on a decal in a garage could say exactly what needed to be said without anyone feeling the need to overthink it.

Inspired by a genuine vintage decal found in a Louisville, Kentucky garage. Designed by Rod Shop Collective. Printed on a premium tee. Worn by people who have met enough of the wrong kind of people to appreciate the sentiment and enough of the right kind to deliver it with a smile.

The officer is still smiling. The advice still stands.

Fit & Details

6.1 oz. 100% ring-spun cotton. Relaxed unisex fit. Sizes S–3XL. True to size. Bold vintage-style graphic on premium tee.

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