Clothing Dyslexia
December 20, 2007 :: Link :: Journal
Every day, I get out of bed and put my T-shirt on backward.
Seriously. Every day. I'm not exaggerating. Most of the time, I look at the tag first, pull it over my head in such a way that I think the tag will be in the back, and then realize it's on backward. Other times, I just leave it to random chance, just pulling it over my head without looking. You'd think that would result in me putting my shirt on correctly around 50% of the time. It doesn't. I always put my shirt on backward.
Some days, I don't even notice. Some days, around 8 or 9pm, I'll realize that my neck feels a little weird. Then I'll look down and see that once again my shirt is on backward.
This has been going on a long time. I think it was on my third day of high school that someone pointed out my backward shirt to me, which was pretty embarrassing because that shirt actually had a graphic on the front of it. I guess I never noticed that the shirt that formerly said something suddenly said nothing. Someone had to tell me about it so that I could correct it.
It's pretty disheartening to realize that I'm nearly incapable of mastering something so complicated and technical as a T-shirt. I mean if I start my day with that kind of failure, what promise can the rest of the day possibly hold?
Maybe I should start wearing button-ups. Oh, god, on second thought, that could be seriously embarrassing.
Maybe I'll just stay in bed all the time. Shirtless. And happy.
Comments
I have thought of the 50-percent probability with little kids and shoes. You'd think it would apply, but no. They put shoes on the wrong feet about 90 percent of the time. I'm never sure whether to mention it. Is it criticizing to ask, "Are your shoes comfortable that way?"
Posted by: Beverly | December 20, 2007 5:50 PM
My shoes had "L" and "R" written on them when I was little. I thought it was ingenious at the time.
Posted by: Barrett | December 21, 2007 1:53 AM