A friend of mine went on a date with a former work colleague this week. She was excited to finally explore her crush. The evening was enhanced by some specialty cocktails (the guy is typical Brooklyn and owns a bitters company). It started off well and ended with him insisting that she take one of his shirts to wear to work the next morning.

Unfortunately, he said to her regarding his shirt, “Keep it.” But it was not like “Keep this shirt as a memento of our first night of intimacy together.” It was more “Keep it so that we don’t ever have to see each other again, even if it’s just to return this ugly shirt that I’ve been trying to get rid of anyway.”

Do some men have a special closet filled with ugly shirts they no longer want and are hoping to unload on innocent one-night stands? My friend thinks that he doesn’t want to sleep with her again because she’s sexually intimidating to men in their twenties. I think there is a good word for these ugly-shirt-closet guys and that word is wanker.

- Haley Hogan

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