storytime

once upon a time, about two weeks ago, i was walking and eating a baozi at the same time. as i was walking and eating, i happened to look down at the stanford sweatshirt i was wearing, and noticed a bunch of marks on it, as if some fat water droplets had fallen from the sky onto my sweatshirt. i assumed that it had started raining, and kept walking. upon finishing my baozi, i finally noticed that my hands were covered with oil/grease (i'm not sure what the difference is), and that it wasn't raining. and then i realized that those marks on my sweatshirt were oil stains. and i was horrified, because there were a lot.

i went back to my room, and tried washing them out with soap. then i hung my sweatshirt up to dry. the next day, my sweatshirt was dry, but the stains were still there. then i decided to put the sweatshirt into the laundry basket and take it to the laundromat. a few days later, when my sweatshirt was dry once again, i noticed that the stains had not in any way diminished. at this point, it began to occur to me that maybe these stains would never come out. but i thought, "no, that's impossible. there must be a way!" so i googled "how do you get oil stains out of clothes," and the most popular answer seemed to be that if you put some borax (what's borax? i thought) and then dawn dish soap and then wash with hot water, the stain will come right out! hooray, i thought. but then i realized that 1) i don't know what borax is, 2) there is probably no borax in china, and 3) ...there's probably no dawn dish soap in china?

so THEN i decided to take it back to the laundromat and have it dry-cleaned, and it was pretty expensive, meaning like 12 kuai.
and today i picked it up
and the stains are still there.

THE END.