Okay, so I googled it. I figured it was just him being lazy, unobservant, out of clean clothes or simply weird. (We’re talking about a man who honestly cannot tell the difference between ironed and unironed shirts, just to give you some context.) I thought that perhaps underwear had the same problem as tube socks – right side-out, the seams at the toe can rub and cause blisters. (Probably better not to ask where he thought he might get blisters.) I thought that maybe that bizarre aperture in the front of mens’ underroos (as they’re called by the gentleman of this house) went in the wrong direction. I thought a lot of things, but apparently I was wrong.

It’s all about luck, boys and girls.

Wearing your underwear inside-out is a bona fide accepted way of eliciting luck from whatever spiritual beasties dispense such. Backwards is apparently okay, too. Baseball players and jockeys even go so far as to wear the same underwear straight through a tournament or string of competitions. Presumably those highly superstitious folks also subscribe to the belief in abstaining from intimate relations with their spouses during that marathon. I’m sure their wives would be less-than-enthused with their attire.A logical question, however, is whether wearing your underwear inside-out every day (and we’re not naming names here, darling) would, in fact, dilute the luck received.

Must get him some lucky rocketship underwear for Christmas (I know you’re listening dear. Notice how I just told The Internet that you’re getting goofy Calvin and Hobbes underwear for the holidays?).

On a side (but highly relevant) note, a friend informed me today that he didn’t need to do laundry at our place while they wrestle with their own washing machine wiring because you can get at least four days out of a pair of underwear; backwards, forwards and inside-out and right side-out for each….. Suspect he’s in for a real run of good luck (although possibly not for getting lucky?).