This episode — perhaps this entire series — is like a portal to a long, forgotten past. It’s full of things I’ve only seen or heard about but have never done — like using a cleaning service! Yep, that’s right, I’ve never had to dry clean my clothes. Oh sure, I own a suit. Two, in fact. But by the time I became a professional working adult, barely any employer around me actually requires their employees to wear one. I’ve worn my suits a grand total of… three times? And one of those times was for a jacket-required, high-end restaurant. The suits don’t even fit me anymore, because I’ve lost weight since I last wore them. So going into this show, I had no clue that a cleaning service would actually examine each garment you hand them one-by-one in front of the customer. I certainly had no clue that they would stare so pensively at the clothes, too. I’ve never even considered going to a cleaning service just for a tomato sauce stain. My washing machine seems to handle that just fine.
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