After digging through a basket of clean clothes lurking behind the living room couch, he balanced precariously on one foot while he put on a pair of basketball shorts. His black boxer briefs exposed a significant amount of butt cleavage where they slid down his backside after he pulled off the jeans he wore earlier in the day,
His exasperated mother, feigning immunity to the childish antics of her grown-ass man son, fought an urge to drop a quarter down his undefended bodily structure.
“Why are you standing around in your underwear,” she said, refusing to comment for the umpteenth time on his inability to cover his entire butt.
“Because I can.” Once he got his shorts on, he adjust them down again, well below his waist and the band on his underwear.
“I could walk around in my underwear too.” The thought of being unencumbered by binding clothing was tempting.
“Please, don’t do that.” His plaintive plea, and the look of absolute horror on his face, only made her want to go sans pants all the more. Though she knew, being obstinate and walking around in her grannies and 18-hour still wouldn’t improve his dressing habits.
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Love the use of grown-ass. Pull those damn pants up!!
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My son kept walking around in his boxers. I told him next time he does it, I’m dropping trou, too. One look at my granny panties cured him of that habit. He should be fine after a few therapy sessions.
Too real, too funny! Thanks for the smile.
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Ha! I love the commentary. Funny story, although I guess it’s a little sad too.
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No, but it might chase him out of the house and into a place of his own haha
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lol
They’re running repeats of Grey’s Anatomy here, and last night one of the characters said he was a “grown-ass man”!
I feel privileged to be in a female environment.
Then again, teenage girls.
And every now and then the younger one pulls her pants down close to her knees.
Sigh.
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This so spot on depicts boys. I keep waiting for the day that my son doesn’t take his pants off the minute he walks in the house. I’m guessing it is never coming.
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My son turned 20 in June, and I don’t see any end to his aversion to pants either.
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Oh all the things I want for my sons…(respect of women, kindness to humanity, comfort for people of all races, religions and gender) my greatest wish is that they do not embrace this trend of wearing their pants so low. I don’t feel your pain yet, but I’m sorry “this was based on a true story” 😉
hope still springs eternal for me. (Catholic school should help, they demand belts. LOL)
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Oh, he wears a belt. It doesn’t help.
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Oy.
I think I fear this most, in the :”BOY WORLD” .
(I’m only half kidding)
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Your menfolk definitely outnumber you.
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I can imagine an interchange something like this between me and my mother when I was in my teens, I didn’t wear saggy pants, but I was inclined to do foolish things, and to lounge around in my underwear if the mood struck. I never did so when my father was around, he wouldn’t have put up with it!
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Ugh. I don’t get the appeal of the sag. I really don’t. It’s sloppy and I really don’t want to see anyone’s skivvies outside of the laundry. LOL.
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Just wait til your kid is late-teens, early-20s. His butt isn’t nearly as cute as when he was two.
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He’s 15 and his butt isn’t cute at all. LOL.
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Ah, then you know of what I speak.
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Yep. Now the 5 yr old is a different story. His butt IS cute, but I still don’t want it hanging out in public. LOL
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I felt the real life relation you have to the material. Very rich and well-written.
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This is my life, Lance. I almost titled it “Based on a True Story.”
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