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Dear Reader,
"You can't write about that," my husband told me after yesterday's embarrassing situation at the doctor. But I assured him I couldn't possibly be the first woman who'd reached for her wallet, but instead grabbed ahold of her underwear.
Frequently my book bag doubles as a purse. Big and roomy, it's perfect for carrying books and writing journals, but not so user-friendly when I'm trying to find my itty-bitty wallet, so I can pay my insurance co-pay. It's a black hole inside my book bag. When I need something I just dive in and start feeling around. Yesterday I realized I was "feeling" for a wallet, but when this silky material met up with my fingertips, curiosity got the best of me and my underwear was half out of the bag before I realized what was happening.
Whoops, quickly stuff that "find" back in! Probably not something I needed to share with the receptionist. Granted they were nice undies, actually one of my best pair. But to my knowledge the doctor didn't work on a barter system and anyway, I don't think she and I even wear the same size. So I kept digging for my wallet, eventually finished my transaction, then returned to my seat in the waiting room and started sorting through my memory bank--how the heck did my underwear end up in my book bag?
Underwear, book bag? Underwear, book bag? Oh, now I remembered. When I decided to sort my underwear drawer the other day--out with the old, go shopping for new, I needed a place to temporarily put the "keepers," ah, there's always a logical reason.
Adrenaline still pumping, my eyes darted around the waiting room. 'If these people only knew I was carrying an extra pair.' A harmless, exciting flirt with possible disaster for this 60-year-old woman...so I kept packing my extra undies the rest of the day.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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