Life is full of mysteries that leave us wondering and scratching our heads. Lice can also do this. But if you have a question about life, or even about lice, this is your chance to ask it. Just shoot me an email, at TippyGnu [at] gmx.com. Or, if you don’t feel like shooting me, you can ask the question in a comment.
Either way, I may decide to get off my lazy butt and put your question to the world, by featuring it on this blog. And then you’ll receive answers from my followers, some of whom possess the smartest brains on Earth. The rest are just smartasses. But either way, you’ll get answers. And we demand answers!
Today’s question comes from a friend. My friend’s wife bought some underwear for him, at Walmart. The underwear was sold in a thick plastic bag with a zipper on it. The bag was labeled, “Reusable Bag.” My friend wants to know why his unmentionables would be sold in a reusable bag? And who would want to reuse a bag that once contained undergarments? Isn’t that disgusting?
My friend has no use for this bag. He asserts that no tool of his is small enough to fit inside it. And he points out that he stores his pens and pencils in a special credenza on his desk. His stomach turns at the thought of storing food in this underwear purse.
He wants to throw it away, but his wife told him not to, because “it could come in handy one day.” She also warns that plastic is bad for the environment, and takes nearly as long as ancient pottery, to disintegrate in dumps.
Remember, there are no stupid questions, so here’s my friend’s: What should he do with this annoying underwear bag that keeps getting in his *@!$% way all the damn time?
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Loose change? He could keep his pennies in it.
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Pennies have been in worse places, I imagine.
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Well ……… to be brief(s), one is only limited my ones imagination.
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“Haha!” But true.
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That’s a nice short answer.
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This may be too deep of a question for first thing in the morning. 😂
He could keep it in the car to hold napkins for when he is eating. Never have to look for a napkin again!
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I think you might be onto something. It would seem appropriate to keep a tissue-like substance in an underwear bag.
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😶🤚!
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He can use it as a juice box.
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“No comment!” 😂
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You can’t at least barf?
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No, I am eating, doolally.
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That should make it easier.
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Too late, I am done! 😛
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Was it shoo-fly pie?
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Haha! No.
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Haha!
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Yuck.
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My work is done.
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I don’t understand what is so gross about re-using this bag. Unless your friend bought already worn underwear (which apparently has some sort of market value with certain fetishists), this bag only contained some clean pieces of cloth. Is there some vital information missing that your friend would care to share? 😉
As someone who does lots of crafty and arty things, I tend to save these kinds of bags for storing small bits and bobs of things I use to create stuff.
Deb
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I guess it’s just the idea that grosses my friend out. But you’re right, it is just clean pieces of cloth. But I do wonder if the purpose of the bag is to continue storing the underwear in it, after it’s been used.
I admire that you artsy-crafty people can make use of just about anything.
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Could he cut some leg holes in it and have a fourth underwear?
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He claims it’s too small. But perhaps he could combine two such bags to create a pair of underwear.
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And your “helpfulness” comes out once again! Maybe you should try to patent your idea.
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In my childhood (before disposable diapers), we used to have those, plastic overwraps for cloth diapers that prevented leaks. We called them “rubber pants.” Not sure if they still exist.
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Keep it in his carry-on bag to store underwear for weekend trips. One so squeamish about underwear wouldn’t want it touching anything else in his suitcase, right?
Better yet, use it to hold a gift. Six cookies, an array of handkerchiefs, whatever will fit. Which will shift the burden of reusing it to someone else, just as the underwear company did to him.
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I like the latter idea best. Yes, an underwear bag would make the perfect gift wrap. I especially like how it shifts the burden to someone else.
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Shifting the burden! LOL!
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I love her idea. It’s sort of like the gift that can keep on giving. I think Joan wins the award for providing the best answer.
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I agree!
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Absolutely! I do it all the time to rid myself of single-use plastics most recyclers don’t want. Like dairy products that come in #4 or #5 tubs. I put cookies for my MIL in them, or soup when a neighbor is sick. Sometimes it backfires… they wash and return the container, as if it were precious, like Tupperware.
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Oh my gosh, yes! I do that for my parent’s when giving them food and my mom always washes it and gives it back. My sister and I were just talking about that. LOL!
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Then perhaps you can address another one of the world’s mysteries, presented by Steve Martin in Father of the Bride: the 12-buns/8-hotdogs conundrum! From the master himself:
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Heh-heh. Funny clip.
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And a funny ponderable, too 🙂
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Hot dog buns now come in 8-packs. But the kosher hot dogs I like come in packs of 6, sometimes 7. You can’t win this one. I’ve tried freezing the extra buns to use later, but the results have been disappointing. I imagine people who have themselves frozen for immortality reasons thaw out as badly as hot dog buns, and who wants to live forever like that? Not me.
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