Ok, my roomies and I have an ongoing conversation about, oh numerous, little things people (we) do in different ways. These things range from methods of cleaning a kitchen, to organizing DVDs in alphabetical order, from right to left, front to back; believe me, that’s another post entirely!
So, this week’s issue of debate is the “right” way to hang a coat in a closet. Sounds simple? I, oh unwitting soul that I was, thoughtthat it was, and so, apparently, did one of my roomies. We hang coats on hangers the way road-crews patch potholes: throw it and hope it sticks! Oh, how wrong we have been!
My other 2 roomies explained to us veheminately that a coat’s front must face to the right of the closet, therefore, allowing a speedy access. If the coats in our closet are notfacing in said direction, these roomies, 1 in particular, will not rest until each coat is restored to its proper direction. Can anyone see the potential for this situation??!
Being the good roomies that we are, the other dissenter and I decided to test the resilience of this theory; we turned random jackets the “wrong” way while 1 was gone, and then waited. Sure enough, when she went to put her jacket up, and we asked her if everything was ok, she said yes, as soon as she finished putting all the other coats “right” it wouldbe ok! She then proceeded to educate us, yet again, about the correct way to hang a jacket, a lesson that, sadly for her, will probably only succeed in making us giggle and plan all the harder to do it again!
is there such a thing as a “right way” to hang a coat and/or clothes? I wonder what the psychological implications of such a fetish are; an extremely ordered person of fine self-control, or some one who is just as silly as the wrest of us??
Posted by jenn on February 5, 2009 at 3:38 am
Hmm. All my clothes and coats have to face left. I hang Shiloh’s that way too. But I don’t know why…