“If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” Re-discovered that today. The problem is that I’m no good at dry cleaning.
The problem is that our command has us dress up in our Summer Working Whites on Fridays. Which is fine, except that the uniforms are simply beautifully white, which is to say that they attract dirt/dust easily. So I put mine into the dry cleaners last Saturday. And they shocked me by informing me that it wouldn’t be ready until Thursday (today) by 1530 due to a sudden influx from a visiting Taiwan Navy vessel. Well, whatever.
So I go to pick them up today around 1600. Not there yet, will be there by 1730 *PROMISE*. Now, I’ve worked at a Navy Exchange in a previous life, so I can see where this is going. I also know that I’m rather powerless to fix it at this point but they promise that the dude is already on the way.
So I go back at 1750, and lo and behold, the guy had arrived but his van wasn’t able to fit all the uniforms and he would be back at 1830. *sigh*. So we’ll try this again in about an hour, otherwise I’ll have to buy another shirt (thankfully it needs no tailoring).