Friday, May 20, 2011

bras

i've been thinking about bras. not about colors and styling options, but rather about why we wear them. and why we don't wear them sometimes and how it somehow seems to have way more significance than it should. like, no one really thinks about if the people around them are wearing underpants. on occasion we catch a glimpse of someone's drawers, but otherwise, i think most of us give little thought to the panties of the people in our midst.

but bras - bras are something we're way too aware of to ignore. if you see a woman with her bra straps showing out the edges of her tank top, you're now aware of the color she's wearing & that she doesn't care if you see it.







some women like to wear strapless or backless tops & yet still wear a normal bra. everyone who sees her stares & makes a stink face at her tacky, tawdry lack of common sense or general trashiness.

i will admit that i get a little judgey when i see a woman strolling through a public place with her boobs clearly long & swingy with no bra in evidence.



though, if i'm being honest, i must admit that i never wear one when i'm home. they are misery and discomfort. the only problem is that when i walk in the door, rip if off & yell "Boobies Free!" i then tend to toss or hang it any old place. this isn't so much a problem for me, but my husband isn't crazy about my bras lying on the kitchen floor. i can't imagine why, but whatever. so i try to remember to at least hang it from the computer desk drawer handle so it's off the floor, but then i usually forget that i've put it there.

today my landlord came over for something & of course, since i wasn't expecting company, i was in the "free zone." i've kind of gotten over the awkwardness of that since it's happened so many times in the past few years that we've lived here. but tonight he came into the kitchen to get some paper work taken care of in preparation for us moving & was leaning over the end of the computer desk writing something when i noticed that he was right up next to my bra. actually, it was brushing his knee. i willed my face not to turn red. i hoped he hadn't noticed it. or maybe he'd seen it, but didn't recognize it in that size & from that angle. a girl can dream, can't she?

the same thing happened last month, but it was with the cable guy. he was squatting down, waiting for the modem under the desk to kick back in & i saw that his face was actually only about a foot away from the bra that i'd discarded there the day before. i couldn't bear to just stand there, having a conversation with this nice, young guy while his face & arm were so close to my hooter holder, so i slowly inched closer & closer to him, then reached out & slowly pulled it off the handle and then backed away, whipped it behind my back and scampered over to brooke's toy box where i promptly stuffed it down in. i'm sure that wasn't obvious or anything.

and now i'll leave you with a lil joke - what did one saggy boob say to the other saggy boob?   "if we don't get some support soon, people will think we're nuts!"

25 comments:

  1. Thanks. I will be in the bathroom puking up my 5 dollar foot long from Subway I just had for dinner.

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  2. Hopefully your bras are in good condition. Mine are ratty tatty, which compounds the situation..YIKES. And yes I fling them off too.

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  3. Let's Hear it for the Free Zone!! Actually, I am the opposite.-- I sleep in mine.

    Ok-- Where the heck do you hang your bra's that they are brushing up on people's knees and faces??

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  4. sorry for the gross pictures, but you know what they say about a picture being worth a thousand words!
    no, they're not always swanky enough to be viewed by the general public.
    amy, picture a desk drawer just below the desk top level. there's a handle that makes for a lovely hook. then picture someone standing up against the desk or worse, like the cable guy, crouching down to look under the desk. i would take a picture, but i'm sure no one wants to see that. and how do you stand to sleep in it? i only did that when i was nursing & it was only to keep from waking up in a milk swamp. and sometimes even then it wasn't worth it, so i'd peel it off & just shower & change my sheets when i first woke up. tmi?

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  5. Hahaha - those pictures hurt my eyes.
    I wear sports bras now, almost exclusively - they're so comfy yet still supportive. I have some friends that say, "What? Have you given up already?" Given up on what?!? I like being comfortable while chasing around 2 toddlers - what's the big deal?! psssfftt. lol

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  6. Hilarious. You know Sherilin, every night after the kids have gone to bed, for some reason I can no longer stand the thing, and whip that evil thing off and leave it wherever I happen to be at the time. Then, the next day as I'm rushing to get ready to take the kids to school, I always have to ask The Man where the damn thing is. "In the kitchen," he'll say casually.

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  7. This is hilarious!! You could always move to AR where bras are always optional (for some)...actually, I may have seen the lady in the third pic in Wal Place this weekend.

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  8. hooter holder.... that is my new phrase for the day

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  9. I once was driving to an appointment with my boss in the car and spotted my bra (from the previous night's hot encounter with my guy ) between the bucket seats. I casually reached down and tried to stuff it out of sight. If he saw it, he didn't let on. (I was mortified!)

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  10. That's too funny Sherilin! If I whipped mine off upon entering the house, my kids would be horrified and I'd probably have whiplash from the sudden gravitational pull!

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  11. Bras are a necessary discomfort.. But I love them- the lacy sexy black ones..

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  12. I hope someone will rescue that poor soul who was trapped in that woman's backfat.
    Little known secret (which probably isn't so little known): We ALWAYS notice when a bra is laying around, when a lady isn't wearing a bra, when a lady is cold, when she doesn't need a bra, when she should wear a bra, and wonder what the rest of the thing looks like when all we see are the straps.
    Although, sometimes (your pictures above are evidence), we'd just as soon ram an icepick into our eyes.

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  13. Oh my gosh girl, those pictures are beyond awful, ha! You are so brave for flying free- it would be my luck that someone would come over everytime!

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  14. Just be glad it wasn't a pair of undies hanging off the desk drawer

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  15. Undies with skid marks. Eww.....

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  16. I despise a bra! It comes off as soon as I walk in the door. I am sure it was a man that came up with the idea of a bra!!! Damn Men...

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  17. Since I have teeny tiny boobs, it doesn't matter if I have a bra on our not, no one is impressed.

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  18. I almost never wear one, even at work. And no one really notices. :(

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  19. i'm jealous of you ladies who can skip them when out in public. i'd be one of those swingy women who people point & stare at.
    and yes, it would be even more embarrassing to have some panties hanging from the drawer. it would totally suggest something more racy than just a lack of comfort in the breasticle department.

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  20. OMG, that last line cracked me up!!! I can't stand wearing a bra either but after having 4 kids, my boobs are exactly as perky as they used to be!! LOL!!!

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  21. Funny stuff, but I'm sure the landlord and cable guy didn't mind being close to your bras, all men are pigs!

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  22. You're so cute. I am totally the opposite. I am wearing two bras right now! They only come out for shower, and sometimes for bed. Hubs doesn't even get a say! ...not until I get these nursing sisters all fixed up! haha.

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  23. I hate that some clothes I just can't buy if I want to wear it in public due to the whole need to wear a bra thing.

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  24. I've always been an A-cup, so I'm really never without my bra as I need all the help I can get to not look flat-chested, lol!

    BTW, when you have a moment, please stop y my blog; I have something for you! :-) http://notmollymom.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-award-goes-to.html

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