Story #1:
Ben has a girlfriend. Actually, that in and of itself is probably a story. Guess who went from super embarrassed when his siblings teased him about girls to straight up owning it? That's right, Ben. NOW it's ok. Insert eye roll.
He's actually really cute with her... in a way that's going make him single sooner than later. You know, stuff like never calling her by her real name when introducing her to people. Yep, that's what Booboo does. In reality, eventually he's going to beat her at a video game and that will probably be the beginning of the end.
Anyways, Burt's girlfriend and her sisters frequently come over: the other two are friends with Kallie and one of them happens to be Andrew's age. They also have an older sister back from college for the summer.
One afternoon, the youngest is hanging out at our house while Andrew keeps on eye on Berry and his girlfriend in the basement. Younger Sister is chatting with us and suddenly turns to me and says, "Hey, my older sister wants to meet you!"
This caught me off guard, "why?" I asked. She didn't really have an answer to that, but I said, "sure, why not?" Fast forward a week and a half to last Sunday. I'm standing at church messaging Katie on my phone between meetings when Older Sister and her mom walk out of the chapel.
Mom: "Oh, hi! This is Older Sister. I heard you really wanted to meet her!!"
This is one of those moments when you wish you knew what you're own face looked like. Hopefully, I kept it neutral. Luckily, I'm saved from having to respond immediately because mom is a talker. Too bad I wasn't quick enough to come up with a quirky reason for REALLY WANTING TO MEET HER. The best I could do caught off guard was ask her about how college was going.
Now I'm thinking it was a pretty clever, and funny, bit of social engineering by Younger Sister to create an awkward moment. We shall have to retaliate in as clever a manner...
Story #2:
Kallie has been doing Marching Band Camp leading up to school starting and needed some white clothes for changing in and out of the band uniform at school. Why you ask? Because apparently schools these days are prudish to the point where you can't change in front of member of the same sex in the locker room.
Frankly, I don't get it. I don't think I have a single memory of ever entering the boys locker room in my high school without seeing a naked body. We started changing in front of each other in 7th grade, if I recall. For the most part, everybody figured out we all had the same equipment then went back to peeing on each other's towels to show dominance and immaturity. OK, maybe I see the reasoning now...
Either way, Kallie needed clothes so that she could change her clothes without taking off her clothes in a weird scheme designed to transfer the sweat and smell of one set of clothes to a perfectly clean set of clothes. Because the band uniform is white, her "not underwear" clothes also had to be white.
Well, Katie bought her a pair of white biker style shorts. She didn't like them, but she did wear them for 5 minutes with the tags still on to get through official picture day. Then she hung them on her door in a plastic bag for Katie to return.
In the meantime.... Nick had been stealing, eating, and hiding as many Hershey Kisses as he could find from Kal's birthday. We believe this led to the following scenario:
Katie approaches Wal-mart returns counter. As she pulls the shorts out of her bag it suddenly becomes obvious to everyone that a huge brown smear exists across the crotch/bum area of the white shorts.
Katie: "Ummmmm, we definitely DID NOT notice that when we bought them."
Lady: rants about how could someone let this happen, which store did she buy them at, they are going to chase this down and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Lady proceeds to gingerly pick up the garment between two fingers touching as little material as possible and flings them to the back of the customer service area. If you ever thought Wal-mart sometimes looks like the inside of a gas station rest room, we are the reason why.
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