The Cellar - What's mildly irritating you today?

The band teacher -in her wisdom- has decided the band needs a "more professional" look, and so has decreed they must all get black long-sleeved dress shirts in time for the concert in two weeks.

1) It's mid year. We all already purchased white dress shirts because that was the uniform and there has been one concert already.....

2) Long-sleeved black dress shirts are considered Winter Wear and as it's March, nobody has them in stock. Unless you are tiny or huge -and then there are some great deals to be had. Even the second hand stores are selling off long-sleeved stuff and have only toddler and 3XL sizes. With stains.

3) it's March. Every single sport and academic activity has state championships etc right now. Who has the time to hunt down a cheap black shirt and who wants to pay big $ for a shirt that will be worn once for a 7/8th grade band concert?

Clodfobble

03-07-2012 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

OMG you are SOOOO in Texas it isn't funny. In NY, it would cost a landlord over 5 grand to evict a tenant and take at least three months. More, if it is winter.

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Originally Posted by Blueflare

The issue is compounded by the fact that two kids are living there, and there's some sort of court order demanding that the kids are kept housed...
But yeah, they have to find someplace else to go before they can be thrown out, for the kids at least.

JFC! Apparently we do live in a different universe down here. Shit, down here the evicting landlord could probably just shoot the unpaid tenants as squatters and have a good case defending himself.

ZenGum

03-07-2012 09:27 PM

Could you dye the white ones black?

kerosene

03-07-2012 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Blueflare (Post 800215)

if there were a "What are you grimly resigned to but no longer have enough energy to get angry about and just want to be over?" thread, this would fit in better.

I have a few items to put in that thread. Lemme know if you find it there in HLJ's list.

HungLikeJesus

03-07-2012 09:29 PM

That's what I was thinking - just use black bleach.

ZenGum

03-07-2012 10:18 PM

Bleach the kids, so the shirts look black.

monster

03-07-2012 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 800285)

Could you dye the white ones black?

I could, but I fear the outcome...... Even "100% cotton shirts" often used polycotton or poly thread for the buttonholes. And the buttons don't dye. And i damn well shouldn't have to.....

Griff

03-08-2012 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 800284)

JFC! Apparently we do live in a different universe down here. Shit, down here the evicting landlord could probably just shoot the unpaid tenants as squatters and have a good case defending himself.

As Ben Franklin said, "Neither a landlord nor a tenant be." *

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 800285)

Could you dye the white ones black?

That's racist!

* Sure its a lie but its plausible.

footfootfoot

03-08-2012 11:08 AM

I think we should petition UT to make a new sub forum between nothingland and Home base for all the What...? threads.

monster

03-08-2012 11:56 AM

you could have the photo comp forum......

HungLikeJesus