What’s on Your Shirt?

Another title might be…….”Endless Laundry Cycle Fails to Stop an Embarrassing Mom Blunder”

What’s on your shirt? I questioned, after I picked up Handsome from school the other day.

Oh, that’s goose poop.

How did you get goose poop on your shirt? 

I slid into a pile of it during one of my football practices.

You had that on your shirt when you got dressed this morning?

Yeah.

Here’s what went wrong:

In the mornings, it is not uncommon for me to choose clothes for my children by the light of hall.  So while I’m not completely blind when reaching into their closets, I don’t get a thorough look at things.  But, silly me, I assume the things that are hung in the closet are clean and relatively “wearable” and I know that specific shirt was washed and it appeared very wearable, but obviously I only viewed him from the front that morning.

I also, obviously, didn’t know about this unsightly stain prior to washing it, therefore no pre-treatment occurred.

So, you wore that shirt to school, knowing there was a huge stain of goose poop on the back?

You put it on my bed, Mom.

Did your teacher see it?

Yeah, she asked what happened to my shirt.

Of course she did……. What did you say?

I told her it was goose poop from football practice.

So she knows I sent you to school wearing a shirt with poop on it…..great.

Lessons learned:

1.  Goose crap does not come out in the regular wash cycle.  Do other moms know this?

2.  Do not trust my son to question any outfit I lay out for him.

3.  In the early hours, torture the children with their bedroom lights while fishing for clothes in their closets.

4.  I am so THAT parent.  Whoever that parent is, I am her.  The one that teachers talk about in the lounge.

Since then, I treated the stain and washed it again.  The green poop stain remained.  So like any good, attentive mother would do, I tossed it into the garbage. 

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