The tension is alarmingly high.
I've just done some maths and actually calculated the tension.
It is 'high'.
Alarmingly so.
I used buttons on my calculator that terrify me and everything.
My calculations show that there are, or rather were, 10 mystery T-shirts lurking in the crevices of the Mystery Package* and over the past eight weeks, 8 have been exposed.
Of those 8, I have favoured four and been utterly disappointed by the other four. This means that Matt and I are currently at equal standings on the Mystery Package leaderboard - an absolute dead heat.
With only two T-shirts left to go until the bag has unleashed it's full fury, the victor of this arbitrary completion will soon emerge, leaving his opponent open to ridicule spanning the rest of time; a horrifying prospect I'm sure you'd agree.
And so I find myself at the helm of another Thursday exploration into the bag, which has been weighing up my fate as I type this.
Please be a Hadouken T-shirt. Please be a Hadouken T-shirt. Please be a Hadouken T-shirt.
Well, this is not a Hadouken T-shirt. This is a Doves T-shirt. A simple, beautiful, no-qualms-here Doves T-shirt, with a very pleasant design. Phew, I'm in the clear!
This navy blue garment has a centrally printed logo featuring several layered shapes forming a collection of doves. The logo is textured with an intriguing blue and white print which was possibly a portion of a photograph originally.
Overall it's clean, clear and interesting design and therefore a winner in my book.
Thanks to this tee, my stake in the Mystery Package leaderboard has just risen from 'deadlock' to 'beat down', but what that's done to my initial tension calculations has baffled me. Has the tension now dropped because I am leading the chase, or has it actually increased ten-fold because there is now only one more tee between my victory and Matt's potential draw?
There simply aren't enough buttons on my calculator to work that out.
*For a proper introduction to the Mystery Package, have a re-read of the post just after Day 102.
