Feb 13 2007
The Ex Tee Shirt
I’m a woman. I live alone. I sleep alone.
You know what this means.
It means I can wear a massive tee shirt to bed.
Even better, I can wear a massive, ratty tee shirt to bed. I have a vast select of corporate tee shirts to choose from.
However, there comes a day when a tee shirt is so ratty it should be retired. Such is what happened to the tee shirt you see below.
I really didn’t want to retire it to the ragbag. I had a lot of sentimental attachment to it. It was given to me by an ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex boyfriend.
NO, the exes aren’t canceling each other out – they represent boyfriends removed. I am guessing at the number of exes. It was a while ago. If you look closely, you can see how long ago.
- Do you wear a tee shirt that is past due? Do wear it in public or in private?
- Do you know someone who wears ratty tee shirts?
- Are you nagged about wearing your ratty tee shirt? Do you know that it’s ratty?
- Why are you wearing your ratty tee shirt?
Ms. Q isn’t the the only one. She knows it.
My daughter steals my t-shirts to wear to bed at night. She only steals the good ones though, good as in “the ones I want to wear!”
Sometimes she gets up before I leave for work and berates me for wearing the t-shirt she was planning to wear that night…
I think her mother puts her up to it
Hi, HMTKSteve – that’s cute! Is she still young enough that your shirt looks massive on her? Big aawww factor there.
Yes, she just turned 8 last weekend.
Does “past due” == too nasty to be worn anymore? Or merely very ancient? (like a rock concert shirt from ‘90. not “the 90’s”, but from 16+ years ago.)
I’ve got a few ancient shirts still kicking around.
but then, i have scads of shirts. scads. hockey shirts. tie dyes. hawaiian style shirts. polos. and then obligatory freebies from work. plain old t-shirts i picked up oer the years. etc.
I do know someone who wears ratty shirts for working out in though.
I suppose being single has meant that i’ve been able to hang on to tons of shirts over the years with no contention from folks trying to snag them from me.
“past due” = “unwearable”
What’s interesting is that everyone defines what is wearable differently. Kinda like how everyone has their own definition of “clean.”
When you refer to definitions of clean are you talking about personal hygene or personal area clean?
I shower daily and feel like a grub if I don’t take a shower within one hour of getting up i nthe morning.
On the other hand, as long as I can walk through a room I consider it ‘clean’. We often joke (I think we are joking) in my house that my wife can not walk past a spec of dust without seeing it as a huge mess that needs to be cleaned while I don’t see the dirt unless it impedes my progress.
HMTKSteve: I can see the whole clean thing has categories! I wasn’t referring to any particular area or type of cleanliness and your comment shows how different people DO have different ideas of cleanliness for all sorts of things.
If we stuck with clothing, some people will only wear a shirt once and then it goes to the laundry basket. Others think they can “extend” it by wearing a tee shirt underneath. Many people wear jeans for at least a few days. Other people don’t think of “number of wears” and do “the sniff test.” Maybe I need to write a post on this!