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Offensive Occasions

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Each card is written, hand-drawn, painted in watercolor, and digitally edited by me, the owner of Offensive Occasions®. Currently this is a very small operation, so responses and print time may be a tad longer than you’d like. So please be patient. There isn’t anything offensive on the front of the card. In fact, I go out of my way to mislead people by illustrating something sweet, innocuous, and deceptive. The offensive part is when you open the card (the punchline). That way people “shouldn’t” be offended until they choose to open the card. Clearly from my company’s business name people have been warned there is OFFENSIVE content. From a young age I knew that being “normal” was NEVER going to be for me. I thrived on being different. I was the kid who often thought “What’s the most inappropriate, outlandish thing I can say in this moment? What would it be like if I got up in class and punched my teacher in the face? How would people react? What can I do right now to make someone cringe, feel better or most importantly laugh?” As I grew older I discovered a passion for art, sociology, and greeting cards! As a teenager growing up in Grandview Heights, Ohio I worked at a couple greeting card stores and saw the same thing – generic, lame greeting cards that only touched on ‘safe’ topics. I would look at the rows of monotonous cards and think to myself “I should make greeting cards that trigger a reaction, share an emotion, and most of all, tell the receiver what the giver REALLY thinks of them!”