Morning clothes quandries

I have discovered a problem with going to the gym in the mornings. It isn't exactly about the gym itself but more the dilemma about having to get ready to go to work at the gym after working out.

Chris and I have a routine each evening which involves packing our lunch, pre-setting the coffee maker, and packing our gym bag with the clothes we will wear to work the following day. None of this is problematic. The problem comes after I have showered and start pulling out the clothes chosen the night before from my gym bag. It is only then that I discover I have forgotten my belt. Or my shoes look completely ridiculous with my outfit. Or I packed pants I machine dried for the first time and didn't realize how much they had shrunk. Of course my shoes also had big heels on them that day so I looked like I was waiting for the next flood. I couldn't pull them low enough on my hips to avoid the "Is the Ark coming soon" look so after arriving at work, I took scissors and ripped the hem out of the bottom of each pant leg. So much for those pants...

Recently I decided I was tired of wearing the same outfits over and over so I pulled a shirt out of my closet that I never wear. Was I smart enough to try it on before tossing it in my bag? Of course not. After pulling on my pants at the gym, I realized I forgot my belt. Not a huge crisis. Not until I put my shirt on and remembered why I never wear this shirt. It is WAY TOO SHORT!! It was terrible. If I had remembered a belt, I could at least have hoisted my pants up high enough to look like Urkle and cover my belly. But between my sagging pants and the horribly short and tight shirt, I was a fashion nightmare.

Let me point out that one of the reasons I go to this specific gym is that it is the halfway point between home and work. The bonus to working out so early is that I get through the worst spot of traffic in Indianapolis before traffic even becomes an issue. This of course means that driving home to change a nightmare outfit is never a possibility. I would be at least an hour late to work. In the case of the no belt and too short/too tight shirt, my solution was to wear my coat zipped half way up the entire day. I only received a little bit of deserved abuse from my goodnatured coworkers and the shirt is now sitting in the pile to go to Goodwill.

I suppose this is one way of cleaning out the closet...