Don’t Bug Me recently took up Jay’s challenge to display oddities that exist around us, which we sometimes need to take a second look at to really become aware of them. Bug’s featured the Happy Ho Upholstery and Athlete’s foot shoe shop, and asked if we could contribute any more amusing sights. The Reject shop immediately came to mind.

It’s new to my town and I initially found the name very off-putting. I didn’t want to buy from a shop full of things previously rejected by other shops, or customers. But once past the front doors, I found it’s goods to be almost identical to the shop it replaced. I still think its funny though, completely terrible, and the strangest name to put on your shop.

On my way to photographing the Reject shop, I spied another name that fits in with Bug’s theme. Gone Potty: over here it means to go crazy, but I think Americans may think of an urgent call of nature.

Unrelated the Bug and Jay’s challenge, but strange all the same, is the fact that at Gone Potty you can purchase an enormous unusable canoe. Where would you put it? Does it appeal to you? Have they gone potty?