Unbuttoning on those terrorist shirt buttons

A form of ignorance has kept me buttoned-up on that aggravating challenge of what to do with those spare buttons manufacturers stick on shirts.

You’ll know the buttons. They’re stuck on just below the last buttoning-up button. Until you inspect them, you might have the popular notion that they are put there helpfully, generously, to make the shirt last longer.

Lose a button? Snip one off the bottom and sew that in its place.

Similarly, if you hold to that generous idea – that the shirtmaker is on our side and wants to help – you will have overlooked the odd places where the tab with laundry advice is affixed.

They aren't on our side

We, the folk who paid for the shirt, want it Out Of The Way. Manufacturers don’t put it Out Of The Way. That’s the last thing they’d do.

You see, the shirt makers aren’t on our side at all. I suspect they despise us.

They have to put up with us because without our custom they’d never sell shirts and probably have to turn to some other anti-human profession, like dentistry, or Customs uniform-wearing, or NHS identity-check inventing.   
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