I was informed yesterday that I was required to provide a white v-neck t-shirt for this opera production. I was at my costume fitting, and I was totally unprepared. I didn’t have my shoes, I didn’t bring any suspenders, and I was certainly not wearing a white v-neck t-shirt. Now, my shoes were at my host house, and the costume folks said they would find suspenders, but the t-shirt was up to me. I’m sure that if I had protested, a shirt would have been provided, but it didn’t seem like a big deal, and so I offered to go buy one, and off to the store I went.
I arrived at Target and headed immediately for the toy section, just out of instinct. Once I had finished looking at all of the Disney princesses and Toy Story 3 figures, I made my way to the men’s clothing section, where they had a huge selection of t-shirts for me to choose from, and this was where my trouble began.
Now, I only needed one t-shirt, but they do not sell under-t-shirts by the ones apparently. They had packs of 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10 white v-neck t-shirts, and so I figured that if I bought a bunch, I would probably get a better deal, so I went first to the 10-pack.
Ugh. $21.99. I am not spending $22 on a t-shirt for this show. Well, I will just go down to the 8 pack. $17.99. Ok, this is crazy, I will just go get a 2-pack. Wait, a 2-pack is $13.99?! How is that possible!? Oh, I see, it’s a “higher quality” shirt or something. Well, okay, I will get a low quality 3-pack. Ah, here it is, the 3-pack is…$13.99?! Fine, I will get the 5-pack! $13.99!!!! Well, how much is the 7-pack?! $13.99!!!!!! No matter how many shirts you get, it costs $13.99! Sure, the 8 and 10 packs were more, but to get 1-7 shirts, you have to pay the same amount of money! And you can’t even buy only one shirt anyway!
So I bought the 5-pack, thinking it would be higher quality than the 7-pack, but I would get more shirts than the 2-pack, if that makes any sense. But I have no idea how to judge t-shirt quality anyway, and the whole thing seems crazy to me! Next time, they can buy me the dang shirt.
Sounds like you should actually have plenty of shirts for “next time” 🙂
I love your writing style and humor. I hope you keep this up knowing that there are people who read your articles even if they don’t comment as I found with my blog when I asked my friends why they don’t comment. (Assuming they are telling the truth.) I actually sent a part of this blog to a friend I liked it so much.