Fw: Re: [at-l] Summer shirt

[hopefl@juno.com (Lamar Powell)]

OK, Jan, if I get in some kind of trouble, it'll be your fault.  Hopeful

Ha!
Hopeful, please post this! It is hilarious!
Jan
And thanks for the tip. I will try baking soda!

Lamar Powell wrote:
>
> Hey Jan. I think Diana has found the secret to keeping the smell out of
> polypropylene. She adds a little baking soda to the wash and uses
regular
> type detergent. After the wash, she air dries all my fleece and polypro
> stuff. I can't exactly say my gear is April fresh but at least there
> isn't that eternally fixed aroma of Evening In Shelter that my stuff
once
> had.
>
> This past October while working Rocky Top, I noticed that just rinsing
my
> stuff with water seemed to remove the biggest part of the odder, as
well
> as the dirt. Maybe it was just a relative issue--meaning anything would
> have been an improvement. You know about relative issues and
perspective,
> right? I recall a funny that explained these:
>
> It seems that a letter was received from a daughter away at college
which
> read something like: "Dear Mom and Dad, I guess you wonder why I
haven't
> written in a while. Well, I'll give it to you short and sweet. I met
this
> guy from Iran, we've been living together for several weeks now. He
will
> be taking me back to his country for me to have the baby so I've
dropped
> out of school and sold all my stuff for the air fare. Actually, none of
> this is true. However, it is true that I failed two course which I've
> already signed up to retake next term."
>
> So! A daily rinse, a little baking soda and soap once you get home and
> you keep telling yourself, "if could be worse."  Hopeful

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