Happy Father's Day! or Hints From Hoban

Say you're about to head out to a Father's Day brunch and your only clean dress shirt is the one with the collar whose tips always veer upwards because it's been through the wash one too many times and you never remembered to buy collar stays to tame it back into place and now you wish you had because if you go out to brunch in this rag you'll look like a doofus!! What could be worse (well, besides opening run on sentences?) Not much. But here's a quick fix and a fast way to get to those eggs benedicts:

1. Find a used up gift card. I chose a recently depleted Regal Cinema card. (Saw X-Men: First Class with the fam, and Super 8 on my own with it.)

2, Next, cut a strip of the card slightly narrower than the stitched "pocket" in your shirt collar. (Dimensions vary)

3. Cut a nice pointy end on one side of the new gift card stay:

4. Finally, jab that thing into the stitched "sleeve", trim the length to the desired dimension and round off the sharp corners. Repeat steps 1 through 4 for the other collar tip.

5. Done and done. Now, if I only had the good fashion sense to buy quality shirts that come with collar stays! (Oh well.)

Happy Father's Day!!