The Miracle of Patch Magic

So, I'm a Boy Scout leader.  Actually I love it.  More later.  Maybe

As a scout you have to affix patches to your uniform.  They sell this miracle glue stuff called Patch Magic at scout stores.  God know whats in it, but it sure is sticky and badges really stay on well.

So this summer it was time for scout camp and I got every badge I could on my uniform and in the right place.  It really was sharp.

At scout camp you wear this shirt at least twice a day every day and maybe the whole day long.  It came back a bit ripe and with quite a lot of Idaho.

I figured that scout camp only happens once a year so I might as well send it with the next load to the dry cleaners.  After the dry cleaners I just "filed" the shirt in the closet until the first meeting in September.

Imagine my surprise when I'm 15-minutes from a scout meeting and there are no, NONE, badges on my uniform.  Yes, it was my shirt.  No badges not even a mark.

Realize that this Badge Magic stuff is serious.  If you tear off a badge there is a sticky patch left over that works better than fly paper.  Not a mark.

A couple of weeks later I was at the Scout Store and the lady there said she had heard of people having problems at dry cleaners but had no first-hand knowledge.

Still more weeks later I'm putting new badges on my old shirt.  I look at the back of the Patch Magic and it says in bold: DO NOT DRY CLEAN unless you want to remove all the badges at once.

I guess it was a classic RTFM.

/drk