Hi Felicity,

So snaps are called "poppers" too? I was wondering what these
poppers were that I kept reading about!

I have trouble eating next to people wearing certain buttons and/or
snaps too. I keep imagining what it would look like if they spilled
food/drink on them. EWWW. I know that sounds crazy.

I forgot to share what I think is probably my worst story. Last
summer I had a retail job, and at first we were allowed to wear
whatever we wanted, as long as it was "appropriate." After awhile,
the manager decided that we needed to have uniform shirts.

She gave us a few uniform shirts each. One was a plain t-shirt with
the store logo on it, one was a plain long-sleeve t-shirt of the
same. I was pretty relieved until I saw the last two. One was a
sleeveless tank with four tortoiseshell buttons at the top, and the
last was a long-sleeve polo with three small clear buttons at the
top. BARF!!!!

The long-sleeves were given to us for the colder weather, but I
still alternated between the two plain t's (even though it was in
the 80's most days). After a couple of months, the t's started to
get faded from being worn and washed about twice a week each. So the
manager actually called me to the back to ask why I never wore the
polos. She somehow managed to make me feel guilty about it! So I
would wear them and use gloves or a tissue to do up the buttons, and
then I managed to forget they were there most of the time.

And I think the worst part was this man I worked with, was sort of a
sloppy dresser and he wore his polos every day but the button part
would always get tucked under so it was touching his neck.
EWWWWWWWW. I couldn't even look at him.

~Lisa