Who rolls up the underwear?

Sometimes when I don't have anything to do, I sit and think. (Scarrrrry because it isn't often that I don't have anything to do!)

The other day I bought a new package of underwear - don't blush - MOST everyone wears underwear - and was amazed that each pair was rolled up into a cylinder-like item and taped in place. It took me 15 minutes to get them all undone. Can you imagine having that job and how do they respond to people asking them about their job? Are they proud to be underwear folders or do they explain their job as being part of the "fashion industry"?

I have in the past thought about the people who have the job of folding up men's shirts, those who stick the pieces of rigid cardboard and plastic tabs into the collars and those that stick the 50 pins into the shirts to make them stay neatly folded. I hate taking out all those pins, by the way, and what are you supposed to do with them? I am not a sewer and usually poke myself at least once while removing them. I'll bet those pinners have poked themselves more than a few times, too, while doing their job. Yikes! How many times have they had to grab the Tide stick to get rid of the blood drops!

And those people who have to wind up electrical cords for appliances...

When we purchase something, we take for granted that the packaging will be eye-appealing. Hey someone has to do these job. Shouldn't we thank them for the time they put into it? After all, we wouldn't want to buy a shirt that is all wrinkled or for goodness sake, underwear that is not either folded (or hanging neatly on a hanger.)

Have you ever watched the television show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe who gets down and dirty with some of the people that truly have some of the dirtiest jobs. He has given the world a view of some of the dirty jobs we totally don't even think about.

I'm betting that it wouldn't take me long to lose my lunch if I had to go into the sewer line each day and get it unplugged - somebody has to do it. In this show, rats and cockroaches as big as dogs who called the sewer home, were running across the workers' feet as they cleaned. Yikes!

He once went out in a boat on a Minnesota lake with guys who have made their job collecting leaches in little traps for fishermen to purchase and use for bait. Many of those leaches attached to them when being taken from their traps. Yucky!

The show gives me an appreciation for these people who do have to get out and get dirty doing their jobs - it makes me appreciate my job even more and that I don't have to do their jobs.

Maybe someone should start another TV show "Sweet Jobs." I'd like to host that one. We could do things like sample ice cream at Wells Blue Bunny, fresh donuts and rolls at Pages Bakery, cheesecake at Boz Wellz and Martinis...

(Can you imagine how much I would weigh if I did this job? But what fun!)

I guess I better stick to my job here - no dirty jobs, no sweet jobs.