Repairs

The button fell off my shorts (shoddily made, I say), so I took them to be repaired on Saturday.

Today I went to pick them up. It cost $2. Or about 1 pound and 10p in old money.

That is so cheap, that even if I'd been to the shop to buy a needle, a thread, a button (of the right size) and managed to gather those, along with my shorts, in one place without losing any, I would still take them to the cleaners.

I am torn between thinking that it's so fantastically cheap that it's great. Or that it's so fantastically cheap that someone is working 14 hours a day fixing my shorts, and getting paid almost enough to be able to not eat sawdust. (They even put them on a hanger, and in a bag.)