XXL

At school we are issued with blue school polo shirts. People are expected to wear them - somewhat like a uniform on particular days. Uniforms are actually very popular here. Universities have uniforms, the staff in the front office at school have a uniform and everyone in Thailand has a defacto Mon, Tues and Fri uniform.
Monday is yellow shirt day,
Tuesday is pink shirt day (for men and women)
and Friday is blue shirt day.

In Thai Buddhism each day has a colour. If you were born on a Mon. your colour is yellow and you share your day of birth with the king. Perhaps 90% of staff at school wear yellow shirts on Mon.! My only yellow shirt is sleeveless and 'politeness' i.e. shirts with sleeves takes priority over wearing yellow.

Anyway I digress. Our school shirts are blue so Friday fare (blue is the Queen's colour) - most staff wear the staff school uniform on Fri. Not sure if wearing it is a rule or not and no plans to ask. (I will continue with a principle I have learned in Asia - better not to ask for clarification on relatively trivial matters, because once you ask for a ruling, invariably it is contrary to what you hoped, but if you didn't ask in the first place, no-one would have cared....)

I got my shirt today.
XXL.
AAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Worse than being issued with XXL (obviously no-one has heard of psychological sizing here...) there is a big public checklist of names where they write the size issued. I asked the woman at front office nicely to just keep xxl in her records somewhere, no need to write on the list... she was bamboozled by the suggestion... didn't get the concept at all...

I think I will find a homeless person to give it to... but then again Thai homeless people dont need XXL..... sigh....
I have got fatter here - mostly due to lack of exercise - but XXL....... ? sigh...