difficult child has been flunking her way through ROTC all year. Not wearing the uniform and/or not keeping the uniform neat has been the biggest reason for the poor grades.
Throughout the year the uniform has been left in the bookbag, on the closet floor, under the bed--everywhere except hung neatly on a hanger. And therefore having it drycleaned is a double headache--first, because the ROTC program contracted with the most expensive cleaner in town, and second, because it is hard to spend that kind of money on drycleaning and then see the uniform get left lying around in our dog-hair-covered home.
So as the end of the year approaches, difficult child was in an uproar that Mom has to get the uniform cleaned right away so I can turn it in. It was a big panic.
Well, Mom got the uniform cleaned. Cost me $25 to have everything cleaned and the pleats pressed into the shirts and the creases pressed into the pants. I picked up the uniform at the cleaners all neatly hung and wrapped in plastic.
husband gave difficult child specific instructions. Do NOT take the uniform out of the bags! he said. He explained that everything was neat and clean and pressed and ready to go.
So difficult child hung the uniform in her closet....where it stayed....and stayed...
So whatever happened to the big panic about Mom getting it cleaned so it could be turned in? Seems like that was a while ago.
Turns out, the deadline to turn in the uniform without facing any fees was YESTERDAY.
So difficult child decides she will turn it in TODAY....
She goes to her closet this morning, removes the drycleaning bags, takes the uniform off the hangers, lays everything on her bed and then stuffs it into an old drawstring gym bag.
Then to make doubly sure that everything is wrinkled and covered with dog hair--she takes everything out of the gym bag while we are driving to school and lays it across the fabric, dog-hair-and-lint-covered back seats of the car to "re-fold" the uniform--and discovers that the gym bag must not have been very clean because now there are some kind of marks on the white uniform shirt.
If we get a bill for that uniform I am going to explode!
{{{{Kaboom!!!}}}}
Throughout the year the uniform has been left in the bookbag, on the closet floor, under the bed--everywhere except hung neatly on a hanger. And therefore having it drycleaned is a double headache--first, because the ROTC program contracted with the most expensive cleaner in town, and second, because it is hard to spend that kind of money on drycleaning and then see the uniform get left lying around in our dog-hair-covered home.
So as the end of the year approaches, difficult child was in an uproar that Mom has to get the uniform cleaned right away so I can turn it in. It was a big panic.
Well, Mom got the uniform cleaned. Cost me $25 to have everything cleaned and the pleats pressed into the shirts and the creases pressed into the pants. I picked up the uniform at the cleaners all neatly hung and wrapped in plastic.
husband gave difficult child specific instructions. Do NOT take the uniform out of the bags! he said. He explained that everything was neat and clean and pressed and ready to go.
So difficult child hung the uniform in her closet....where it stayed....and stayed...
So whatever happened to the big panic about Mom getting it cleaned so it could be turned in? Seems like that was a while ago.
Turns out, the deadline to turn in the uniform without facing any fees was YESTERDAY.
So difficult child decides she will turn it in TODAY....
She goes to her closet this morning, removes the drycleaning bags, takes the uniform off the hangers, lays everything on her bed and then stuffs it into an old drawstring gym bag.
Then to make doubly sure that everything is wrinkled and covered with dog hair--she takes everything out of the gym bag while we are driving to school and lays it across the fabric, dog-hair-and-lint-covered back seats of the car to "re-fold" the uniform--and discovers that the gym bag must not have been very clean because now there are some kind of marks on the white uniform shirt.
If we get a bill for that uniform I am going to explode!
{{{{Kaboom!!!}}}}
