The thing about packing for a year carry-on only is that anything you wear doesn’t count toward your 10kg limit.
So I wanted Matt to get this jacket:
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But he said “No, that’s ridiculous! And it doesn’t even have a hood!”
Which I had to admit is a good point. Does it never rain on secret agents? Do they use umbrellas? I would think they would want their hands free for their concealed knives, guns, handcuffs, and whatever is redacted from the jacket’s user manual:
Maybe their hair gel just repels water so well that they require no additional protection from the rain?
But where is the laptop going to go? And what if Matt gets shot in the chest?
Matt pointed out that if you want your laptop to be bulletproof you probably need to buy one made of metal. I told him that if he wore it in his jacket we could afford the extra pound to get a metal laptop! But then we’d be lugging the extra pound around all the time, and he’s not really planning to get shot.
So then I wanted him to wear this shirt:
But he refused to do that either.
So then we started discussing the other T-shirt options. And I told him to go with the blue one because it felt lighter. And he didn’t think there could be a significant difference.
And that’s how the T-shirts wound up in the kitchen scale.
His T-shirts ranged from 140g to 230g. Mine from 65g to 120g. His shirts literally weigh twice as much as mine! And they don’t even have pockets!