In July of this year I sent a black suit off to the dry cleaners. But only the jacket returned. I’m told that the trousers slipped off the hanger and were put with someone else’s jacket. Despite the best efforts of the dry cleaners, they have not been found.

But what gets me is the psychology of the person who has received them. Just imagine. They put a jacket into the cleaners. It comes back clean with a pair of trousers.

Do they imagine that the trousers have come from some magic trouser tree in the sky? Will they be wearing these trousers, saying to their friends ‘look what the trouser fairy has given me’? Or are they gathering dust in a cupboard somewhere still in the cellophane waiting for the next time the jacket is needed? What will they do when they find them? It's a mystery.

Alex Pease,

Martyr Worthy,

Winchester

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