Magnetic
Clothing – also known as Jinx, Cursed and Gremlin clothing: certain shirts,
pairs of pants, blouses, dresses, etc. that attract food or dirt within less
than ten minutes after being applied to one’s body.
I don’t know that everybody has at least one
article of magnetic clothing, but I know several people do. I have possessed such articles since infancy,
I would imagine. Though I don’t actually
remember any examples until my early teens: white cotton pants, comfortable to
wear – attracted dirt like you wouldn’t believe. If there were any spills, any marred areas
that I may have brushed against, any food item within a ten mile radius – they
would be attracted and adhere themselves (and I also believed multiplied in
size) my white pants – until finally I was at the point of “Why bother? Really?”
Today
it is the army shirt that Tony and Rochelle had sent me for my birthday last
year. Our washing machine has seen it
more than my body has. I don’t think
I’ve ever made it a full minute – until yesterday. I don’t how Tony and
Rochelle would feel about my having made their thoughtful present into part of
my garden attire. But as it just seems
to magnetize dirt anyway, I might as well just use it in the dirt.
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