Blog Number 157

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I was discussing the subject of pants with my pastor about 10 years ago (I can read your thoughts now, "Oh great, how can a blog that starts with that sentence possibly be interesting?").  One thing that I have found I can do is to discuss almost any subject with almost anyone.  Anyway, we were talking about pants.  Specifically, we were talking about how to make them last longer.  Both of us were on a tight clothing budget at the time and so we were sharing our good ideas.  We both agreed that it is not the wearing of the pants that makes them not last, it is the washing of them.  And we both typically wore a pair of Docker's for 2 days before throwing them in the laundry hamper (unless of course you spilled something on them - spilling something on your pants on day 1 of the wearing cycle was very frustrating to both of us).

Fast forward to August and us moving to our apartment here in Texas.  I had a very sophisticated method of keeping track of how many days I had worn a pair of pants but since I now had to share a closet with my wife here, I had to think of a new method.  Ultimately I ended up keeping the "fresh" pants on one side of my closet and the "used" pants on the other.  This works fine...until the wife gets involved.  For some reason she does not adhere to my methods.  Freshly washed pants end up on the wrong side of things all the time.  Also, if I take a fresh pair of pants from the hanger, I move the hanger to the used side so that when I get home at night I can remember if the pants I am wearing need to go to the used side or to the hamper.  If I am wearing pants in day 2 of the cycle, I move the hanger back to the fresh side.  My wife likes to steal my hangers for laundry so when I come home and all my hangers are gone, I have to try to remember what side of the closet I pulled the pants from that morning.  I have asked her many times not to mess with my hanger method.  I usually get the rolling of the eyes and a pat on the shoulder, "I am sure you will be fine, honey."

I'm telling you, my life is rough and it appears even the wife is out to throw me off.  It is too much for a man to bear sometimes.  I hope I made this entry starting with a sentence about pants exciting for you.  Or perhaps you only enjoy my blog in order to read about my frustrations.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon