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04 January 2006

So, yesterday, I went to the post office →[More:] and as I was waiting in line a man kept smiling at me. He looked vaguely familiar so as is my wont in such circumstances I smiled and waved and said, "Hey, how are you?" because I know that I'm bad with faces. Then I realized that he was actually trying to get the attention of the woman in line ahead of me, who he knew, and I felt like an idiot. I left the post office and as I walked up the street I realized that my fly was open and had been open the whole time I was in line. I also realized that it feels very embarrassing to stop and do up your fly on the sidewalk.

post by: mygothlaundry at: 11:55 | 14 comments

When I first moved out of the burbs and more downtown, I decided that I would head down to Chinatown and check out the shops and malls and whatnot.

So I was wandering around the malls, and I felt like I kept getting the hairy eyeball. At first I thought it was my imagination, but evidence mounted, and I was pretty sure was thinking "what's whitey doing in our mall?"

Later I realized that my fly was down.

posted by Capn 04 January | 12:02

That's so embarrassing. And then, when you're on the other side, and someone thinks you're talking to them but you're not, you try to talk to them anyway, so they don't feel embarrassed, but it doesn't work and then you feel bad, too. Ah. Awful.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 January | 12:04

I will always approach someone who has something in their teeth, hair or has their fly down and let them know. I figure the temporary embarassment is much better than finding out about it later and wondering how long its been that way.

posted by sciurus 04 January | 12:06

I double check that I'm zipped up every time I go outside. Unless it's one of those days.

posted by cmonkey 04 January | 12:07

Me too, sciurus. And I get furious when people don't tell me about those things.

posted by jrossi4r 04 January | 12:08

I sometimes walk around with my fly unzipped on purpose, just to be different. And the crossbreeze is a bonus.

posted by jonmc 04 January | 12:16

i've done the fly-down thing at work--commando, no u'wear. standing in front of the entire company because i walked in late and couldn't get a seat at a meeting with some new company bigwig and i had to stand in full view of everyopne. luckily i was able to pull my sweater down over my zipper.

happens all the time when you're goofy like me.

posted by shane 04 January | 12:31

Going commando is not an option for me. Being skinny, my jeans tend to hang pretty lose and if it work for my boxers the whole world would have an unimpeded view of my forbidden valley.

posted by jonmc 04 January | 12:41

How funny, my wife was in the post office yesterday and ended up doing the same thing with the lady in front of her only she actually ended up being a long lost friend of hers who'd just recently moved to our area.

jonmc, that's half the fun of going commando, the danger is the tittilation (or whatever the term is when its in your pants).

Okay, I'm gone until after work. Be good, kids!

posted by fenriq 04 January | 13:18

perhaps fenriq, but I'm willing to respect the worlds wish not to see my concave hairy ass displayed unneccessarily.

posted by jonmc 04 January | 13:33

*waves to fenriq*

posted by danostuporstar 04 January | 13:40

I once went into the post office in a bit of a rage because the mail guy consistently jammed my mail into my box, even though I left him really nice (then really mean) notes asking him not to. Was waiting in line to talk to a manager, was incredibly pissed off. Went to the machine that distributes those little Take A Number things, yanked one out, and the entire roll of number tape came out and went rolling across the floor like a big ribbon.

Everyone laughed at me and I left.

posted by mudpuppie 04 January | 14:33

LOL mudpuppie! Sorry but that is damn funny.

I drove over a concrete wheelstop once after a company softball game in front of the whole office. HIGHLY embarrassing.

posted by chewatadistance 04 January | 16:33

I TOLD you guys I was a thread killer!

posted by chewatadistance 04 January | 18:11

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