if one wanted to reuse an item that had inadvertently been misfiled in the laundry basket, you threw it at the wall. If it stuck to the wall, you tried another item. Trousers that stood up by themselves were probably past their best, but very convenient.
Ewww-wwww...please, I just finished eating. I guess all your friends learned to stand upwind...

Speaking of eating, and throwing things against a wall--
a friend and I went to a seafood place for lunch the other day, and I asked for some of that red shrimp cocktail sauce.
It was brought in one of those little plastic containers with lids. It had obviously been stored on its side, because half the container was empty. When I took the lid off and set the container on its bottom, the "sauce"
stayed put--with a vertical wall at the halfway point.
I ate my fish sauceless.