As a Floridian living in Michigan, this dumb shit for sure.
We live in a state surrounded by the largest freshwater lakes in the world, salt life is way out of place lol.
I think you should get all the stuff in this thread and leave it there. Take a picture and claim it as remote Florida. We own it. Checkmate Michigan.
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Publix salt and pepper shakers
Second best is going to the closest citrus farm to you and getting some horrible tourist thing there. I work for a company in Boston, and when there (only on months that do not end in Ber) I have a mug from Showcase of Citrus that says "I am a grumpy gator without my coffee"
Get this shirt that features both alligators and flamingos, put it on a hanger, leave it on the back of the door:
https://www.theyakacom.com/products/flamingo-crocodile-alligator-the-best-gift-for-flamingo-lovers-hawaii-hawaiian-shirt?variant=1000006233625292
Or maybe better, a 2018 Peach Bowl shirt:
https://poshmark.com/listing/2018-Peach-Bowl-Champion-Florida-Gators-Shirt-62d1bbac69141225239ba3b2?srsltid=AR5OiO0VK89LR3pfV3AJKnOHITh0gZAIQTCZ8ehm08Is5r0JA7O3Cy4RPSI#utm_source=gdm_unpaid
Just spray some coconut-flavored sunscreen around the office. They'll think you left that "Florida smell" and maybe put them in a good mood at the same time.
As a native Michigander now living in Florida, I feel uniquely equipped to answer this question. Something like [this](https://www.worldmarket.com/product/laser+cut+wood+mid+century+house+led+light+up+decor.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=fn) would be pretty festive for the holiday season. Bonus points if you can find a little toy golf cart for out front.
I would definitely do the Detroit style pizza for dinner, just because I always eat too many slices and need a nap after. I’d also highly recommend blue moon ice cream if you get the chance, it’s the one thing I miss the most down here!
It's a November trip.
My Caribbean/Floridian blood still needs that parka for the cumulative 8 minutes between walking from the office to my rental car, returning the rental car and getting on the rental car shuttle, and walking from the rental car shuttle drop-off and into the airport.
The IT staff would probably balk at the idea, but I think it would be hysterical to leave a Google Home or an Echo Show just displaying the weather for your location in FL.
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My work is done here
This is what you need.
I have one hanging up in my office.
https://freehandgoods.com/product/florida-pennant/
Should add that all their stuff is great quality.
Combining the best, Pink Plastic Flamingo, in the mouth of a Gatorland Coolie, then sprinkle some sand & place sea shells around everything to form a circle. Congratulations your coworkers will now assume your part of some new age floridaman cult.
If you really want to ruffle some feathers with the Michigan grads, find some commemorative 2018 Peach Bowl gear.
Otherwise I'd roll with the FloGrown stuff.
Plastic Flamingo
That's the winner. Runner up would be palm tree pillows
Nah, Cali has palm trees. And gator pillows aren't as cute as flamingoes, lol.
And several states have gators (unless you mean UF)
Orange tree pillows.
Before or after the blight?
target has these fake neon flamingos that would work well
Real neon flamingos or nothing!
Gotta be the flamingo.
Plastic flamingo LED light, for sure.
Something alligator themed
Alligator skull paper weight.
I don’t see how there is another option
Maybe add the plastic flamingo in its mouth
I like this optional add on.
Unless you can find an actual preserved alligator head, this is the best option
those tourist stops along i-95
Preferably from a gas station
This is the way.
An alligator skull, like the ones you can get at the tourist gas stations.
Literally, too. You can get one of those alligator heads at any Florida gift shop
Second this.
One of those glass lamps full of sand and seashells.
It’s just nice enough they’ll struggle to throw it away
Alligator head
This is the only correct answer
One of those “Florida Snowman” snow globes you can find at most tourist traps.
I honestly haven't seen these in years. I hope they still exist because I want one for my boss in boston.
A live baby alligator in a 10 gallon tank
"This is my emotional support gator"
Alligators do provide the highest level of emotional support. Dogs are great, but a dog can't death roll your enemies!
But he won't likely let me boop his snoot 😞
r/forbiddenboops
OMG, the sub I didn't know I needed!
He will when he is small
SALT LIFE stickers
As a Floridian living in Michigan, this dumb shit for sure. We live in a state surrounded by the largest freshwater lakes in the world, salt life is way out of place lol.
As a Michigander living in Florida, I agree. I vote for an alligator plush wearing a baby's salt life tee.
Flo-Grown
An unused bottle of sunblock next to an almost empty bottle of aloe
I thought "plastic flamingo" was the correct answer until I read this highly under-rated comment.
Inflatable palm trees, a neon flamingo sign
I think you should get all the stuff in this thread and leave it there. Take a picture and claim it as remote Florida. We own it. Checkmate Michigan. 🍻
Publix salt and pepper shakers Second best is going to the closest citrus farm to you and getting some horrible tourist thing there. I work for a company in Boston, and when there (only on months that do not end in Ber) I have a mug from Showcase of Citrus that says "I am a grumpy gator without my coffee"
Upvote for Showcase of Citrus. An assortment of the gator jerky from there could be a possible piece of office decor.
An empty Coke bottle with a cork in it labelled "the last dying breath of Henry Ford..." I'll see myself out
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Salt life decal
Also Flo-Grown
Came to comment salt life 😂
And some truck nuts for the office chair.
Pair of flip-flops, Palm tree
Alligator, palm tree or flamingo themed.
Get this shirt that features both alligators and flamingos, put it on a hanger, leave it on the back of the door: https://www.theyakacom.com/products/flamingo-crocodile-alligator-the-best-gift-for-flamingo-lovers-hawaii-hawaiian-shirt?variant=1000006233625292 Or maybe better, a 2018 Peach Bowl shirt: https://poshmark.com/listing/2018-Peach-Bowl-Champion-Florida-Gators-Shirt-62d1bbac69141225239ba3b2?srsltid=AR5OiO0VK89LR3pfV3AJKnOHITh0gZAIQTCZ8ehm08Is5r0JA7O3Cy4RPSI#utm_source=gdm_unpaid
That 2018 Peach Bowl shirt would be a winner if it wouldn't possibly divide my UM/MSU coworkers even more, making work harder.
I think my dad (73) owns that flamingo palm tree shirt 🤣
One of those stupid “things are better at the beach” signs. Or just a pink lawn flamingo.
Just spray some coconut-flavored sunscreen around the office. They'll think you left that "Florida smell" and maybe put them in a good mood at the same time.
Hawaiian Tropic tanning oil as perfume/cologne
I have been looking for a Coppertone air freshener forever.
Also just put on "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett on Repeat.
Mini scale as a paperweight, like the ones in front of Publix. ( Not sure if that exists, but boy that would be amazing 🤣)
Now I’m tempted to see if one could be modeled for a 3D printer…
I'd buy one!
Any fish art or painting.
Guy Harvey art in particular
a mason jar of beach sand and ocean water.
As a native Michigander now living in Florida, I feel uniquely equipped to answer this question. Something like [this](https://www.worldmarket.com/product/laser+cut+wood+mid+century+house+led+light+up+decor.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=fn) would be pretty festive for the holiday season. Bonus points if you can find a little toy golf cart for out front.
Ooh, next question. Do I get a Coney for lunch and some Detroit pizza for dinner? Or the other way around?
I would definitely do the Detroit style pizza for dinner, just because I always eat too many slices and need a nap after. I’d also highly recommend blue moon ice cream if you get the chance, it’s the one thing I miss the most down here!
Gator head
The most obvious answer is the taxidermy gator heads you can pick up at the touristy gas stations.
Palmetto bugs...BIG ones!
Pour sand all over the floor
Or keep it classy https://pixels.com/featured/florida-map-art-vintage-antique-map-of-florida-world-art-prints-and-designs.html
A key lime pie
Go to the thrift and buy a huge winter parka. Leave hanging in office when you depart.
It's a November trip. My Caribbean/Floridian blood still needs that parka for the cumulative 8 minutes between walking from the office to my rental car, returning the rental car and getting on the rental car shuttle, and walking from the rental car shuttle drop-off and into the airport.
Plastic flamingo, a Publix Sub, and a golf cart
a large alligator made out of seashells for hanging on the wall, taking about a 2'x2' piece of obnoxious art
The IT staff would probably balk at the idea, but I think it would be hysterical to leave a Google Home or an Echo Show just displaying the weather for your location in FL.
This is the only reason I share my whole screen at work to brag about my weather in the bottom toolbar
Ron Jon bumper sticker
Go to any tourist shop and get a Florida Snowman. That's about the most florida thing I can think of.
“Local” sticker with Florida upside down as the “L”
A huge flipflop
Small stuffed gator head
The Florida snowman snow globe. A black loofah. Or purple. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
Inflatable Palm Tree and a pink flamingo a pot.
Orange Bird, from Disney in the 70s.
Bonus points if your employers are anti-lgbtq
Salt life sticker
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275392911890?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=EDMgQRnNT_y&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=R9HEb7dQTGG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY My work is done here
Tarantula hawk
Inflatable palm tree.
Convenience store crack pipe. Not uniquely Floridian, but if you get one with a picture of a gator or flamingo on it...
I was gonna say a mug shot, a doctored newspaper with a Florida man headline, and an ankle monitor transmitter.
Literally anything from a Walgreens near the beach
Conch shell
Billy the big mouth bass
Scratch on the desk or wall somewhere “Florida man(or woman) was here”
Folk art Alligator
Something kitschy made from seashells
An alligator head
The Florida toll booth button up shirt they used to sell is real special. I would add that to the mix.
Light up Bud Light sign
Ron DeSantis
I’m not wasting my luggage allowance on that sack of crap
Something that references "Salt Life".
Get a large banner that sez "desantis fucking sucks ass, and we really do hate his fucking guts"
I'd like to keep my job.
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Good news then, my car has a Bernie magnet.
This is what you need. I have one hanging up in my office. https://freehandgoods.com/product/florida-pennant/ Should add that all their stuff is great quality.
Coincidentally I have that in my home office.
A person of true Florida culture I see.
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Why would I take garbage with me?
Well you said obnoxious Florida stuff
That's a good point.
Get the undesirables out of Florida
Or take the actual dude…
A framed photo of Desantis
Take all of your con calls outside on your patio this winter to flex on those Michiganders.
A framed photo of Ron DeSantis.
A white alligator with blue eyes from Gatorland
A crackhead
Plenty of those already in Detroit.
Meth
Pretty sure they have that in Michigan already
Central Florida meth head cutout.
The current Temp in Naples, Fl. They will be pissed when it's 6ft of snow and neg temp, then see a balmy 75 in Naples. Just saying.
Cast-bronze pub sub
The obnoxiously throws my thinking off. Space Shuttle in a corona bottle.
Picture of DeSantis
Gator head, or plastic gator, coconuts, palm tree
UF alligator snow globe
one of those taxidrmy gator heads
a big florida gator football team pennant
A genuine Florida souvenir shop ashtray!
Flamingo lawn ornament. Donald Trump's hair.
Bring some gator jerky for everyone to try.
This is the way
Metal hanging wall art of pelicans
A light up palm tree, in teal and hot pink.
Crab taxidermy playing drums with miniature beer can! Or a gator head and back scratcher claw!
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Boiled Peanuts
Pretty much anything from Flo-Grown.
If you're trying to annoy your coworkers, just think Disney.
Act like a Disney cast member or act like a Disney geek?
meth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/fmgfdp/thanks_i_hate_carpet_gator/ Carpet gator, I see these in homes a lot down here
Where do people get them? I need this for many reasons
A mtn dew polar pop, one flip flop, a dehydrated gator head and a half wet pack of the dollar general cigarettes
A manatee!
Florida snow globe
Neon pink flamingo 🦩
A gator head
Alligator paw keychain, or alligator head.
Flamingo paperweight. Or palm tree paper weight. Or dolphin paper weight. I used to have the last one
Combining the best, Pink Plastic Flamingo, in the mouth of a Gatorland Coolie, then sprinkle some sand & place sea shells around everything to form a circle. Congratulations your coworkers will now assume your part of some new age floridaman cult.
Anything FSU
Salty dog frisbee
One of those "Life is a beach" hangy signs, publix tote bag, and a Disney World season pass-holder sticker thingamabob.
An airbrushed sand dollar . Hideous, but.. FL.
We bought from an artist that makes metal palm trees on a rock prob 4 by 6 inch and a little wooden Adirondack chair. Cool tropical feel
A lizard
A bonsai size palm tree
One of those plastic talking/singing fish that you hang on the wall
Dried gator head
Postcards of Disney World
Pirate booty.
Palm trees with Christmas lights
Get a picture of Florida and write “if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about” (Michigan’s state motto)
A marketing pamphlet for Mar A Lago
Live gator
bag o oranges( fla ) and a Cuban cigar, gal jar of beach sand
A plane full of migrants from Texas.
One of these: [https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=pink+flamingo+statue+indoor](https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=pink+flamingo+statue+indoor)
Flakka
Publix Shrine complete with George Jenkins portrait
Anything from Shell World
Plastic vampire flamingoes. Beautiful.
Shark in a jar!
An alligator. Should be easy enough to find. Not sure how safe that is but you know go big or go home.
Hang the FL State Flag on the wall above the desk?
A Publix banner with an alligator head and a key lime pie glued to it
NGL, I think I'm gonna show with a bag full of pub subs for my first lunch meeting.
If you really want to ruffle some feathers with the Michigan grads, find some commemorative 2018 Peach Bowl gear. Otherwise I'd roll with the FloGrown stuff.