{"id":14549,"date":"2024-07-31T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:30:26","slug":"one-size-fits-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/07\/31\/one-size-fits-most\/","title":{"rendered":"“One Size Fits Most”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“One Size Fits Most<\/em>“<\/p>\n

\"2000216232That was written in medium sized print on 2 boxes of Nitrile Gloves I was throwing away. I couldn\u2019t help but laugh. Then I thought, \u201cWhat a scam!”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a medium sized man with what I\u2019ve always thought of as small to medium sized hands. My motorcycle and winter gloves have always been \u201cMedium\u201d although this year I\u2019m going to be in the market for new gloves and I suspect that I\u2019m looking at the inevitable \u201cOH NO! You\u2019re wrong again you don\u2019t wear Medium, you wear LARGE don\u2019t you know that????<\/em>“<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ve worn medium sized T-Shirts for years, now suddenly I wear large. You\u2019d think it was because of the middle aged gut, that is a component, but that\u2019s not the whole story.<\/p>\n

\"TightIf I grab a Medium T-Shirt from 8-10 years ago it fits great, even with the middle aged bulge. However a Medium T-Shirt I bought last month didn\u2019t fit in the shoulders, sleeves, or gut. I might as well have been wearing a sausage casing. I exchanged that T-Shirt for a large and it fits. This has been a recurring theme of late.<\/p>\n

Like the Nitrile gloves in the recycle bin. “One Size Fits Most\u201d used to mean the item would fit me just fine. Not anymore!<\/p>\n

The other half had purchased these particular gloves while I was doing some work on the house. He\u2019d caught them on sale, and had purchased the same brand and size that I was already using comfortably. He\u2019d even gone down into the garage to look at the box containing my dwindling supply.<\/p>\n

Then we found another partially used box of gloves and I didn\u2019t get around to opening these boxes until today. They\u2019re over two years old, and were still sealed in their plastic overwrap.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t put them on. Literally, they were so tight I couldn\u2019t get my hands into them. If I\u2019d just purchased them, I\u2019d have exchanged them. Given their age\u2026 into the trash they went.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got some large and medium sized latex gloves that will serve the purpose right now. Since they\u2019re Latex, they have a shelf life, so I should use them before they get so fragile as to be useless.<\/p>\n

As I was running all this through my brain I came back to the \u201cScam\u201d thought.<\/p>\n

Follow this logic if you will.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019d ordered two boxes of the “One Size Fits Most\u201d from Amazon at 1.98 a box, then figured out I couldn\u2019t put my hands in them, I\u2019d have written it off. I\u2019d have ordered the next size up and given the boxes that were too small away. Or I\u2019d have dumped them in the trash because they were too much trouble to box up and return to Amazon.<\/p>\n

End result, the vendor sold the gloves, didn\u2019t have to process a return, got to make up a review, and the boxes of gloves ended up in the trash unused. In other words. Scam!\u00a0<\/p>\n

You could assume they\u2019d been built somewhere in China and OneHungLow was having a bad day. Instead of tossing the poorly made product, these were sold cheap as seconds at a steep but still profitable discount. In the end, the shitty product still made it into an American landfill.<\/p>\n

The manufacturer makes money, the Amazon vendor makes money, Amazon makes money, UPS makes money, but me, the consumer, ends up paying to be OneHungLow’s garbage man.<\/p>\n

Then my mind turned over this question:<\/p>\n

How often does this kind of thing happen? If it\u2019s common then there\u2019s a lot of waste. Even if people return badly made crap there\u2019s the fuel expense of delivering and picking up. Plus all the packaging and labeling and the labor costs. No matter how you slice it bad standards<\/strong> of sizing must cost a fortune.<\/p>\n

I’d gotten to the point where I tried on every single pair of Levis because even though they all said 34\/30. Rarely were any two pair actually the same size. It\u2019s not just Levis, Wrangler, Lee, and even the off brands from Tractor Supply or whoever. No two pair of pants fit the same. The same is true of shirts, and T-shirts, even underwear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a pretty simple guy. I want to grab 4 pairs of jeans from a cubby. I\u2019ll check that the sizes are what I need, then head to the register. I used to be able to do that. I could shop for clothes in 20 minutes. 15 minutes was spent in line and walking in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

Same with shirts and underwear. Sizes made sense, they were consistent, and life was easy.<\/p>\n

Now, I literally have to try on everything and when I don\u2019t, I have a shirt that looks like I\u2019m in a sausage casing. How the heck do clothing mail order houses stay in business?<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s something else to think about in all this.<\/p>\n

Our whole society is based on \u201cOne Size Fits Most\u201d.<\/p>\n

There was a time when that meant something. There was a consistency that could be relied upon more often than not. Now days? Virtually nothing is consistent. Safety is not guaranteed (there was a weird ad in a newspaper titled “safety not guaranteed\u201d it was a promotion for some movie about time travel I think.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, we\u2019re in the future and safety is not guaranteed, nor is sizing, or building codes, or vehicle standards. Hell, Toyota just recalled 100,000 engines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"EngineThink about that! Complete engine replacement in 100,000 vehicles. These are standard internal combustion engines. You know, the kind we\u2019ve been building for over 100 years. How do you go so horribly wrong in building one that you have to recall them instead of being able to replace the bad component?<\/p>\n

Moreover, how did the design make it through testing and emissions certification and into full production with no one noticing a problem?<\/p>\n

Could it be poor standards?<\/p>\n

How many of our standards have been allowed to slide because we don\u2019t want to hurt anyones feelings? How many ticking time bombs of failure do we have in our everyday lives because a supervisor or quality person couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t say, \u201cThat is Wrong! What you\u2019ve made doesn\u2019t meet the specification.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

One Size no longer<\/strong><\/span> fits most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“One Size Fits Most“ That was written in medium sized print on 2 boxes of Nitrile Gloves I was throwing away. I couldn\u2019t help but laugh. Then I thought, \u201cWhat a scam!” I\u2019m a medium sized man with what I\u2019ve always thought of as small to medium sized hands. My motorcycle and winter gloves have … <\/p>\n

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