Caught with pants down redux.

for years, my sister has been making her own spanx by using an upsized pair of control top pantyhose with the legs cut off. (suddenly, i'm recalling that as a child my sister-in-law's sister – does that make us related? – used to wear her mom's old cut off pantyhose as sort of a sleeveless body suit. there is photographic evidence of this, but i'm reluctant to produce it as the photo also depicts me in a blond dolly parton wig wearing a KFC t-shirt with the chest stuffed with a beach towel or something.)

anyhow, my sister is in a store checking out the spanx display, wondering if it's time to upgrade. next thing she knows, her homemade spanx and her elastic waist pants have something of the reverse magnet effect and her pants end up around her ankles. she quickly a: looks around to see if anyone has noticed and b: pulls her pants back up. probably in that order. then she goes right back to looking at the spanx as if nothing had ever happened. (she claims she was too stunned to think of anything else to do.) me, i'd have hightailed it out of the store and might never have come back. (i'm picturing the staff replaying the security tapes over and over again, or worse: youtube …)

but i guess now that mom is gone, somebody has to keep up the tradition.

p.s. she did buy the spanx.