Tonight, i inventoried my underwear drawer and, lo and behold, the best pair i own is held together with a safety pin. Can you say *fucking* ghetto? yeah. So i tell mom i need underwear, she says "well i'm going to kmart, lets just get some there." I say, "Sounds swell!" (Nevermind that buying underwear from kmart is probably not even cool enough to call ghetto.)
And we are on our merry way.
I get assloads of underwear, the sexy kinds that don't come in packages and will not fall apart. (well... i am sort of a sex fiend so thats not a guarantee...)
We head to the check out line. Peripheral vision: the clerk is some young guy, but no big deal, its not a secret that humans wear undergarments right? I gleefully pile my wealth on the little rubber strip thing, he rings them up.... and the glitch.
Computer malfunction. Typical. Overcharged. (The benefit of a sale is so negated by spastic computers adding random extra items to the receipt.)
Evidently this is too much for the poor lad. He is very apologetic and quite obviously a clerking noob. I tilt my head to the side, his steadfast shy mannerisms seem so familiar... my eyes wander towards his plastic nametag...
"KARL"*
Karl... Karl?
Long ago, in a church youth group far away...
I
know this guy.
shit shit shit shit shyyyiiiit
We spend the next half-an-hour with him and another clacky-nailed woman, attempting to "fix" things. Picking up each individual piece of underwear over and over again to find the price tag. Can you say orange thong? lace? thong? ORANGE? His mumblesome little voice, "Wullll um lets see here ummmerrrr-" plucks at the ass-floss -"i think i rang this up twice..."
At this point, I am asking myself why I ever wanted to wear underwear anyways. Something along the lines of, I-am-SO-cool-with-going-commando-the-rest-of-my-life-now-lets-GO.
Oh the thong-tastic mortification.
-M
*Name changed for his protection