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underpants

(197,435 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:12 AM Yesterday

My dry cleaner is tracking me. 👀😳 No really.

My wife and daughter took a bunch of stuff to Goodwill last night. While there they found exact matching Christmas plates to the ones we already have AND they bought me 8 shirts. Nice shirts Izod, Joseph A. Banks, etc. I’ve got a Brooks Brothers shirt I found at another Goodwill - $5 😃

I dropped them off on the way to work in our drop off bag this morning at the dry cleaners.
The dry cleaners called me at 8:30 to verify that two of the shirts were mine. Apparently they have a “heat seal tracking device” or like an iron on spot on each shirt by owner. They match it to the drop off bag. The former owner(s) must have used the same dry cleaner.

Who knew???

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My dry cleaner is tracking me. 👀😳 No really. (Original Post) underpants Yesterday OP
Lol SuzyandPuffpuff Yesterday #1
(Twitches nervously looking around) underpants Yesterday #4
They need to talk to a real live person to verify digital data bucolic_frolic Yesterday #2
Yeah. I called them back selected 4 thinking it was customer service underpants Yesterday #3
Might have to rethink giving the shirt off our backs Marthe48 Yesterday #5
Ooh underpants 23 hrs ago #10
I'd be steamed. Harker Yesterday #6
🥁 underpants 23 hrs ago #8
...and I'd be pressing for answers. Harker 23 hrs ago #7
😂 underpants 23 hrs ago #9
Now explain the shirtless guys wandering around your neighborhood! Floyd R. Turbo 22 hrs ago #11
Hang in there Niagara 17 hrs ago #12
🥁 underpants 17 hrs ago #13

bucolic_frolic

(56,073 posts)
2. They need to talk to a real live person to verify digital data
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:26 AM
Yesterday

I guess that's encouraging. But they could track potentially anything. Your keys, your shoes.

underpants

(197,435 posts)
3. Yeah. I called them back selected 4 thinking it was customer service
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:31 AM
Yesterday

but it was the lady at our local shop.

Pretty impressive in this day and age, to me.

Marthe48

(23,583 posts)
5. Might have to rethink giving the shirt off our backs
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:46 AM
Yesterday

It would make a unique movie plot. The main character being accused of a crime because of a thrifted shirt. Very Kafkaesque!

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