::A Geek in Korea::

My wife seems to think I have an excessive number of clothes. I use more of the closets. I have more shirts, more pants, more socks, more everything. This might be because when I moved out of my parents house, I progressively managed to haul my entire wardrobe of clothes to Korea. Even though I rarely buy new things, I never toss anything out unless it has holes in it.

This morning, I got out of my sleeping clothes and changed into my running shorts and t-shirt. I perspire enough that it’s not a good idea to try to wear the same clothes through the day if I go to walk Yoshi. After my walk, I came back, showered, then changed clothes for work.

The problem was, I was cooking lunch this afternoon, and we were eating something loaded with gochujang (red pepper paste). I accidently got a piece of rice on my white shorts, which I had to take off and wash to prevent it from staining. I ended up having a hard time with the stain, soaking my pants. I needed to change.

As soon as I put on new shorts, my wife found a spot on my shirt. Off with the shirt! Having changed my outfit three times today, my wife complained that I took up far too much of the laundry that she had to do. She refuses to let me do most laundry related tasks. She’ll buy clothes knowing the only way to clean them is to hand wash them on the floor of the bathroom, scrubbing them like mad.

I tell her to use the numerous dry cleaners available that will pick up and deliver the items to our house, but she decries this as a frivolus waste of money. She’d be happy with a rock and a stream and some soap if it saved her a few won.

Anyway, I never considered myself fashionable or clothes obsessed, but I refuse to turn up in dirty clothes at work. Is this too much to ask? I’ve never, ever, asked my wife to scrub my clothes for me by hand either. Still, she loves to complain about all the clothes I wear.

Next time, I’ll cook with my sweaty old house clothes, then change into my clothes for work before I leave. That way I can minimize the annoying red stains of sloppy eating.