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August 11, 2006

The Tale of the Underwear Tag

I've been neglecting this website lately. The reason for that is that just about everything I've had to say has been a little too personal to share. I don't plan to ever use an online journal to air my angst again, although the drafts of previous attempts entries sitting in my Movable Type control panel suggest that 3 am is a time of day during which I don't have quite enough self control to follow through on that. At least I have had enough self control not to post them, though.

Anyway, because of this, I haven't said much around here lately. But today I was telling Lauren a story that she declared worthy of being shared on the internet. I personally find it amusing, but not quite that entertaining. However, I feel like I owe something to this site. I hate letting it sit, ignored. So here's my story.

Currently, I wear a brand of underwear that has little tags on the left side--my left side. I've been wearing this brand of underwear for somewhere around six years now, and since the day I bought my first pair, it has irritated me to no end. Not because it has a tag, although I'd rather it didn't, but because the tags are on the left. And I have a very good reason for that.

When I was little--I'm going to guess around five years old, because I actually remember this--I was having a hell of a time with my underwear. I could not for the life of me tell the front from the back. Nearly every day I put them on backwards only to have to take them off, turn them around, and put them back on. When I complained to my mom about that, she told me that the way I could tell was that the tag would be on my right.

Now, I don't know if she meant that the specific underwear she used to buy for me had tags on the right or if she meant that universally, underwear tags were on the right and things have just changed, but I took it as the latter. Could have been a little kid thing, could have been an AS thing, could have just been how she really meant it. Who knows.

All I know is that to this day, every single time I put on a pair of underwear the tag on the left, I'm reminded of the fact the world makes little to no sense.

Luckily, I'm used to that feeling.

Posted to Nostalgia at August 11, 2006 12:33 PM

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Posted by: Lauren at August 11, 2006 01:05 PM