This seems to be my day for weird blog posts and this one definitely meets that description!!
Since my earliest days, I have sought to keep my legs warm to help nurture along my arthritic left hip and leg. I've tried a number of strategies and generally wear something under my pants as long as the temperature remains below 70 degrees.
For years I wore sweats under my jeans or overalls. While this strategy indeed kept my legs warm, it proved very problematic because I have very little butt and so, no matter how tight I drew the drawstring, the sweats always seemed to slip below my waist. This meant I spent most of the day pulling up my pants and sweats.
In time, I switched over to the use of buffalo pants (they look like flannel pajama bottoms). They weren't as bulky as sweats, but I still had the same problem with the drawstring.
This past year I rediscovered something that I wore in my 20s during my work with the US Forest Service -- the union suit. It's a one-piece pair of long underwear. One of the cool feature of a good union suit is that it comes with bombay doors -- a flap on the bottom side that allows one an easier ability to...well...you know. :P
The flap is kept closed by a button and here lies my problem. Because I sit a lot, the button tends to leave indentations on me keester. This isn't a serious problem because few people -- including me -- ever see my butt. It also doesn't induce severe pain or anything, but it can be a bit annoying, at times.
I don't know, I suppose it's representative of life, in general. Almost everything we do or have brings its own pluses and minuses to the table. While my union suits solve a recurrent issue I had with the other strategies employed, it also creates one of its very own.
Not an earth shattering problem, mind you, but it can be a bit of a pain in the ass. :-D :-D
Since my earliest days, I have sought to keep my legs warm to help nurture along my arthritic left hip and leg. I've tried a number of strategies and generally wear something under my pants as long as the temperature remains below 70 degrees.
For years I wore sweats under my jeans or overalls. While this strategy indeed kept my legs warm, it proved very problematic because I have very little butt and so, no matter how tight I drew the drawstring, the sweats always seemed to slip below my waist. This meant I spent most of the day pulling up my pants and sweats.
In time, I switched over to the use of buffalo pants (they look like flannel pajama bottoms). They weren't as bulky as sweats, but I still had the same problem with the drawstring.
This past year I rediscovered something that I wore in my 20s during my work with the US Forest Service -- the union suit. It's a one-piece pair of long underwear. One of the cool feature of a good union suit is that it comes with bombay doors -- a flap on the bottom side that allows one an easier ability to...well...you know. :P
The flap is kept closed by a button and here lies my problem. Because I sit a lot, the button tends to leave indentations on me keester. This isn't a serious problem because few people -- including me -- ever see my butt. It also doesn't induce severe pain or anything, but it can be a bit annoying, at times.
I don't know, I suppose it's representative of life, in general. Almost everything we do or have brings its own pluses and minuses to the table. While my union suits solve a recurrent issue I had with the other strategies employed, it also creates one of its very own.
Not an earth shattering problem, mind you, but it can be a bit of a pain in the ass. :-D :-D
Velcro my friend Velcro.
ReplyDeletethis post made me laugh! and i thought i broadcast too much personal information on the internet... ;)
ReplyDeleteYes, velcro! I thought of it on my way to work this morning but haven't had a chance until now to say so. I see, however, that someone else was brilliant before me...
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