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The Saga of the Traveling Underpants
January 6, 2010
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[...] you say “triple dog DOH!”? The other funny from Sarah can be found here. It’s all about what happens when your underpants start to fall down under your clothes. I [...]
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[...] 6) Most of the moms in Ian’s class know about the time my underpants fell down in Tae Kwon Do. [...]
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[...] know about and understand blogging. Other times I just hope that they didn’t read that one post about my underpants falling down in Tae Kwon Do or that I think flipping people off with two hands and calling it “Tennessee Style” is [...]
This is the best freaking laugh I’ve had in a while. Thanks.
But horray for size medium underwear!(?) I mean, there is a bright side to this story right? FTR, I would have pretended to faint before hitting the trampoline.
Oh, my god – I had the big underpants problem too!! And every time I’d wear them to work I’d swear I was going to throw them out, but then I didn’t want to throw out underwear unless it was clean so I’d wash it and put it back in the drawer with the others and the whole thing would start all over again. Big underpants are the worst.
I recommend these:
http://www.hanes.com/Hanes/Products/Women-Hanes/Women_ShopByCategory-Hanes/Women_Panties-Hanes/Women_Panties_Hipsters-Hanes/ET41.aspx
They haven’t let me down. I swear by all things Hanes, and also, all things beige. Beige does not show under white. Bad experiences with thong underwear for anything exercise-related. Hipsters or boybriefs rule. Measure your hips, they run true to size.
I’ve had that happen to me! I was not in Tae Kwon Do doing kicks, but was, in fact, crossing Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. AWESOME.
Oh, I even tweeted it. Fourteen months ago, yet it feels like yesterday:
http://twitter.com/Annabelle_me/status/1024508687
Sounds like you need some kick-ass underwear. What? Am I the only one who went there?
First and most importantly, I really can’t believe you have not shared this story.
Thongs are not good activewear. (Actually I don’t really believe in them as a thing but this is not about me.) You kinda need a more stable base for jumping like that. Target has tons of the microfiber underwear that really don’t move. I’d go with that. Or nothing.
I still give you so much credit for doing this in front of this seemingly random assemblage of people of all ages.
But did you get a sticker?
The forms are called pumse or hyungs depending on which TKD style you’re learning, and the dialect of Korean used by the masters who started that particular variant.
Trust me when I tell you that you aren’t the first student, nor will you be the last, who has wardrobe issues. It usually starts happening after you’ve been doing it a while and all your clothes start to hang on you instead of hug you.
Well, hey, that pretty much RULES that Large is too big. Wait, was there another point to this story?
My friend Eileen tells of the time that her boys were in high school, and they were hanging out at her house with some guy friends when she emptied the dryer one day. She pulled out her big white granny underpants, held them up and said, “Boys, you won’t see anything like this for another 20 years.”
By the way. This story caused me to wet my Big Underpants. Thank you.
I rarely come out of the reader to comment, but I had to tell you that this was an awesome story. You should put yourself in these awful situations more often because they are quite delightful to read about.
while I know the funny bit is the falling underpants, I got distracted by the image of you lined up with the group of five and six-year-olds kicking on a trampoline. That takes guts.
A friend of my mother’s, who is quite the character, was teaching a DUI class several years ago. As you can well imagine, the students in the class weren’t exactly thrilled to be there, and didn’t care much about the content of the class. On this particular evening, Cheryl was wearing a long white skirt with a slip as the skirt was rather see through. She stood in front of the class with an overhead projector for about 45 minutes, giving the presentation. When class was over, she walked a few feet to turn off the projector and realized that her slip was down around her ankles. She had been standing there the whole time in front of the class. Not a single person had mentioned the slip or even looked up and giggled. Of course she was laughing hysterically as she told us the story even to the point of pulling her slip down around her ankles to demonstrate.
Lori
Jockey, string bikinis. I wear a size 6. Not the greatest for panty lines, but never fall down. Kohl’s or JCPenney. They may still be 25% off, too.
“Plus, this didn’t have to be awesome underwear. I was going to wear it to kick people.”
I have tears reading this story! And, the sentences above made me think of Kill Bill.
I’ll bet they have awesome underwear.
God, I laughed so hard! I was working out last night and my stretchy workout pants were falling down my waist and hips. But fortunately I was alone in the basement!
Sarah, I’m sure that we covered the “don’t talk about your underware in public” lecture. Sigh. Now just see what kind of wacko search words people will find you with!
Crap. I think I must have misunderstood.
Did you mean not to talk about poop in public too?
Thanks for making me laugh! I found out the hard way that underwear sizes are not the same as dress sizes & was stuck at the lake with huge undies!
This is hilarious. But my former Victoria’s Secret employee self is cringing that you wore white underwear under white pants. Always go for nude colored bra and panties under white clothing.
The whole time I’m at the gym tonight I’m going to be thinking about my ass kicking underwear.
Hilarious…
Last year on an overnight field trip with 5th graders, one of my crazy teachers stopped at WalMart on the way to meet the bus and picked up some size 14 underwear because that’s what size she wears in clothes. Underwear sizes are not the same as clothing sizes. The next morning, she opened the package of the only underwear she packed to find a pair of underwear that would have fit two of her. We still laugh about that. She wore them. I would imagine she felt a lot like you!
go into the hallway and throw underpants up in the air and see what happens!!!!
When my mother was a prof at Columbia in NYC she was walking somewhere, maybe across campus, and the elastic broke on her underwear. She had a dress on at the time. My mom told me she just stepped out of the undies and left em on the sidewalk and speed-walked away. She figured by the time anyone noticed, she would be long gone.
LOL,you had me in hysterics! I have had so many wardrobe malfunctions you almost make me want to post… like the day I decided to try garters and stockings for the first time… as a tv reporter… on a windy day… while interviewing a senator on a windy tarmac… Or the time I accidentally shut my skirt into the car door and it jammed the door so I couldn’t open it again.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this post for so many reasons — the underwear, the idea of you in a class with little kids, the trampolines — next time I want photos! : )
I just laughed so hard at this that I think my underpants fell down.
FWIW, Mama’s a TKD black belt–I write this not to intimidate you, but to let you know that she’s here for you if you need the inside scoop on something, like what kind of underpants to wear. Shoot me a note, I’ll get you the answer.
Holy crap. I’m still laughing.
lol! Perfect title too!
What? I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you. I was laughing too hard. Holy crap. That was funny!
Thank you for sharing this story, I really needed a laugh today!
“I am supposed to be focused on the task (or the master will never give me a sticker)”
ROFL – too freaking funny – thanks!
Ohhh my gosh, laughing so hard here! I hope you can find some new underwear that fits, hehe!!