Funny Concrete Finisher Hats

Concrete finisher and cement mason are two names for the same trade, used interchangeably in union and job listings, and the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association has locals across the country. Hand troweling is done kneeling and moving backward across the slab, with knee boards or special gear, which is where the trade's habit of joking about its knees comes from. This collection speaks in the voice the trade already uses on merch. Redbubble sells designs built on the cement-versus-concrete correction, and Etsy sellers carry I'VE POURED MORE CONCRETE THAN YOU'VE WALKED ON. Here the pedantry becomes I'M A CEMENT MASON, DON'T CALL IT CEMENT, the brag becomes SMOOTH OPERATOR, and the sidewalk boast gets a modest rewrite, THAN MOST PEOPLE HAVE WALKED ON. CONCRETE KNEES, STEEL TOE, SOFT HEART covers the kneeling work, RAIN ON POUR DAY IS PERSONAL is the finisher's private grudge, and MY PLANS ARE SET IN CONCRETE is a pun for the rest of us. CONCRETE FINISHER and CEMENT MASON serve as the plain badges. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one for the day you float and trowel a slab, or give one to the friend who still says it is not cement.