Oh Here is a Good Memory for the Book

From 7 years ago: Yes, I still wash ED shirts at this house.

Gene and I have been married long enough that for the most part I can think like he thinks, when necessary. 90% of the time I can find a file on the computer in the 3rd or 4th level directory below the main directory because that is how Gene thinks. And we have gestures, not obscene, that we both understand. They are normally made fun of and referred to as the universal gestures because the first time he didn’t understand one of my gestures he made fun of them with, “oh of course the universal gesture” for whatever it was. As I have gotten older, I cannot think of words so we often play charades for him to guess the word I can’t recall. But he stumped me this time. Undershirts have always been an issue at our house, there is always 2 males wearing the same size. When it was Matthew and Gene, I put a MH in the back of Matthew’s which he hated so after that when he came home from college I just washed all of his separate and hung in a different place. Now it is Isaiah and Matthew but Isaiah wears them much less often and Matthew is not home often so it works out. For some reason, if Gene doesn’t have an undershirt in the closet, it means I have not washed white clothes But being Gene, he is not going to complain or ask and make me feel useless for not doing laundry. After all I only do at least 2 loads a day, every day. So he doesn’t ask or tell me or go look in the laundry room. I confess I only wash white clothes once per week but he certainly has more than a week’s worth. Twice he confessed he didn’t have any clean and went without. So, I walked him to the laundry room and showed him where his clothes are hung before I get them to the closet. Just to be sure he had enough, he got more for Christmas. So now the issue is I washed undershirts and had some with an ED written with red sharpie in the back of the neck. There is no one at our house with Ed in their name. So I asked who was wearing Ed’s undershirts. ED, both capitol letters, stands for Every Day. So these are for under work shirts he wears around the house, not to wear to work or with dressy clothes. I just hung an ED undershirt in his closet and I had to chuckle. I would have used a red X, the universal sign for not a good shirt. I guess we need to start the universal abbreviations log to file along the universal gesture chart.