T-Shirt Episode

I happened to go through some of my tour photos. Its vacation still I appeared in formals, many a times. Why is this? Is it coz I always prefer to dress in formals? There is a sad story behind it.

Usually, I won’t keep a big budget for T-shirts every year. I like white and its variants. Thus I have/had many white and off white Shirts and T-shirts. So what?

It doesn’t matter who it is (coz we had more than one – not at a time), our maid servants always paid a special attention to spoil my T-shirts. While washing, they used to put it along with other colored cloths and my white or off white or one with white in or light colored ones….it started became colored ones. Only thing is the color was here and there !! There was one maid who was a specialist in breaking the buttons !

One incident that really hurt me was a yellow T-Shirt, which I bought from Thailand partly turning into red. I had a special attachment with that yellow T-shirt coz that was sort of traditional one in Thailand, which had the kingdom’s emblem printed on it. People of Thailand used to wear that on every Monday.

Yes, it is hard to believe. But the truth is I lost most of my T-Shirts and shirts that way (some white/off white shirts were costing more than 1000 bucks). When I moved into this new place and appointed a new maid, I thought things will change. Nope. It’s the same story again. Not just T-shirt, but many of my white vests (the one men wear inside the shirt ) too.

For my birthday, I got a couple of T-shirts as gift (from my wife). It was just a couple of months ago, that is, during February but two of them already become multicolored and hence useless. My wife told this maid many times to not to mix up white and colored ones, but every time this happens, she has some excuse. Not just me, my son got a big blow when our maid decided to change the color of his uniform even without the school’s knowledge!. Luckily, it happened almost at the end of school year and he had one uniform shirt to spare...Then I started washing his uniform till his school close for vacation.

So there no solution for this?

Since I was badly in need of T-shirts, last week, again I bought a couple and now I decided to wash it by myself since I don’t have any more T-shirt budget for 2008.