And yet golfers are reflexively celebrated for passing the white-glove test on clean play.

DIRT LEVEL: Would pass the white-glove test; even the chalk is brand new.

Houston is the son of a coach who respects authority and who maintains an image that could pass a white-glove test.

The Mets could not have passed a white-glove test, either, as it appears.

As polite and well-groomed as Blockbuster Video clerks, they do not know they are undergoing the white-glove test from their new boss.

Like the lobby, our room was full of chunky, IKEA-type furniture, and was clean enough to pass a white-glove test on the spot.

SOME roster gods habitually profess to love kittens, milk and players with integrity who could pass a white-glove test while their team of good guys fades softly into mediocrity.

"Mother was a military wife - you kept house in a different sense," she said, confirming the existence of the white-glove test.

I gave up long ago trying to pass the white-glove test.

Time for the white-glove test.