Iron from the bottom

First can we acknowledge what a weird word IRON is when you're tired. Or maybe it's just when I'm tired. It doesn't even look like a word.  It looks like four randomly chosen letters. Or an autocorrect fail.

Any way...from the depths of my distracted and exhausted mind comes: Iron from the bottom.  

A co-worker was lamenting that he recently destroyed a work shirt because he was ironing a new bow tie, didn't realize the color bled onto the iron and then proceeded to iron his shirt. But he started at the collar. So now there is bow tie smear all over the white shirt collar making it unwearable. Tragic. 

But, and this lesson comes from him, now he knows to always iron from the bottom. If he'd started at the bottom of the shirt it wouldn't be ruin because that's the part he tucks in. 

I suppose some alternate lessons are: don't iron bow ties or clean your iron. Truly it all looks like jibberish right now anyway. 

If Life was a Dream and it was my dream "Iron from the bottom," is a metaphor for experimenting or testing something out. In new work situations (it was a work shirt after all) we need to iron from the bottom. Figure out what setting our iron is at and check for any residue from the last work situation.