#3 Pet Peeve

Because it’s a Sunday, and I’m supposed to be angelic today, my incoming vent is limited to mere 99,999 words.

Sleepwear.

For the life of me, I don’t understand why characters in kdramas don’t wear nightclothes. They have expensive phones, 16 coats and 16 bags (a different one for each episode), but they don’t have decent nightwear. They wear either uncomfortable day-clothes or dirty street-clothes to bed.

Look, these are the same people who make a big show of swapping street shoes for house slippers yet they don’t think twice about lying in bed, in the same clothes they wore the whole day, either inside the house or outside at work.

I understand that shoes walk on dirty streets, and they could have possibly stepped on soil, spit, dogpoop, chewing gum, cigarette butts, sewer water, and IceMelt.

However, when you enter my house, there’s an outdoor mat to clean off any debris from your shoes, and an indoor rug for a second round of shoe-wiping. And since my broomstick is only meant for flying on Halloweens, we have a roomba programmed to clean the floors daily at 9am and a cleaning service to come every other weekend. See that? The chances of my body parts (apart from my feet) touching dirty particles left on the floor are minimal. We don’t sit on the floor nor sleep on it.

In my OCD mind then, the dirt particles left by street clothes on my bed are more insidious than dirt particles left by shoes on my floor — because you hardly pay attention to them.

Who knows what microbes, allergens and dust mites have found a niche in my suit and coat when I sat on restaurant chairs, rode the metro, waited at airport lobbies, and used public toilets. I’m sure when a man sneezed on me in the elevator a couple of days ago, his nasty air molecules, so full of germs, landed on my jacket, not my shoes. Thus, while I’m not exposed to the same pathogens as doctors are, there’s a reason why doctors don’t wear their hospital garbs outside the building: the possibility of transferring airborne diseases.

That’s why I view our bed as the last sanctuary of cleanliness. Street clothes and day clothes are banned from touching pillows and sheets. The only hazardous material that’s allowed on our bed is me, the Queen Bitch (QB).

And my husband concurs (lol).

Here are some of the scenes in kdramas where the hero and/or heroine flopped and rolled on their beds with their day-clothes and street-clothes. Revisiting these scenes again gave me the chills – but not from excitement, I can assure you.

Jugglers

A few moments earlier, YY was sleeping outdoors on a  wooden platform. Although I swooned at the way Choi Daniel carried her indoors — like she weighed nothing more than a feather — I frowned at him for not taking off her winter jacket. One, the jacket is dirty. Two, she could have overheated wearing that down jacket under her comforter. Three, it’s darn uncomfortable being wrapped up like a burrito.

W

Yes, this looks like a sweet scene but … come on now! Really?? Jeans on the bed?? I don’t care if they’re a pair of Armani; they aren’t welcome on my bed because god know knows where those jeans have been. Plus, if you’re a well-endowed guy (you know, what I mean), they’re super-uncomfortable to lounge in, with the zipper and heavy material tight around the crotch area. 

Love from Another Star

He dies from bodily fluids. Whatever. I’ll die from bio-contaminants sticking to his dirty coat.

Faith

Was this the same outfit that he wore when he slashed through an army of invaders? Was this garment washed and disinfected? I feel nauseous at the thought of all the blood splatters on it.

Secret Garden

Two offenses here: They’re sleeping on carpet! and … who sleeps with a hood on?? And a snug one at that. I’m getting a neck strain just looking at this picture.

Master’s Sun

This looked like a blissful scene but then I noticed the cuffs on his shirt. Ugh! Was he wearing an office attire – his white shirt from work? I’ve never seen pajama tops with tight cuffs like that? Really now, those cuffs struck a jarring note in an otherwise romantic pic. lol. It would be hilarious if he was wearing cufflinks too.

A normal guy loosens his tie, unbuttons his collar and undoes his cuff links when he comes home from work. This picture, despite looking quite dreamy, screams “STAGED” to me. 

Feel free to share you pet peeves.