I was dismayed to feel my favorite jeans were a little tight in unmentionable areas. Darn all the turkey and ham and…{list too long to type}.
I was already late to join guests for another Thanksgiving celebration, AKA extensive dinner. Frankly, I wasn’t sure my jeans could take another one. It seemed like it happened overnight. Did I shrink them? No. If only. I only wash my jeans if…{list too indiscrete to type}.
I suck in. Wiggle. Jiggle. And I manage the impossible. Jeans zipped. Last breath taken. Ready to consume mass quantities?
In the middle of eating the middle of my mashed potato volcano, I feel an odd lump in an odd spot on my person. The part of my person covered by said jeans.
This is not good. Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Unclear.
Not good. Not good. Never happened before. Must. Act. Now.
I don’t have time to excuse myself. I reach into my pants and pull out a pair of panties. Not freshly laundered. Not a scrap of lacy fabric.
“How did you do that?” asked my daughter, who assumes I have pulled off the panties I was wearing. Because who wears two pairs? Who has a pair scrunched up in unmentionable places along with one in more traditional placement?
I took the only way out I could grasp.
I twirled the faded panties around on one finger and said, “Been practicing all year.”
How was your Thanksgiving?
Traditional placement only,
~gregorific