You would think that, over time, the favourite t-shirts would sift to the top of the pile, while the less-favoured shirts would settle down at the bottom of the pile, thus resulting in less of a need to rifle through the pile every day looking for the one t-shirt that you feel like wearing, thus creating less of a total disaster in the t-shirt drawer whenever one’s mother goes to put away your freshly washed favourite t-shirts.

You would think that, but you would apparently be wrong.