Unusual Breezes
As I was walking from Algebra to German today, I spotted, several people ahead of me, a true nightmare.
There was a girl walking in the same direction I was going, to the same building in fact, and she was wearing a nice full, white skirt. When she had donned her backpack, she had evidently pulled it up from a rather low point and had managed to catch her skirt with her backpack. There were several things in her favor: it was a full skirt so the extra fabric kind of drooped around the tucked portion of the skirt and it was a long skirt and while it had been caught fairly low and pulled fairly high, it still left her with about a miniskirt length at the highest point.
My own hand snuck around to the back of my skirt in a discreet smoothing kind of fashion, just to make sure that I hadn’t done the same thing in some horrible twist of fate. Things seemed to be as they should have been.
My heart went out to the poor girl. As people dwindled down to only one person between us on the sidewalk, I determined that if I could catch her as we walked into the building, I would try to discreetly tell her of the problem rather than holler ahead to her on the sidewalk and possibly embarrass her further.
She entered the building just ahead of me, with the one remaining person continuing on down the walk. As we entered the building, there was a kind lady from the cleaning staff standing there and spotted the problem before I could stop the girl. “Excuse me, excuse me,” she said, “You’ve got a problem.” Rather than stick around and embarrass the girl further, I turned to head down the hall in a different direction. As I continued on my way, I heard the lady say, “All them folk walkin’ behin’ ya and couldn’ none of ‘em tell ya’.” I felt a twinge of guilt for not having been able to catch her first, for I was “one of them folk.” Oh well, my intentions were good, for as much as that counts.
A Lesson Learned: BE AWARE of any unusual breezes. It could be more than a change in the weather patterns.
There was a girl walking in the same direction I was going, to the same building in fact, and she was wearing a nice full, white skirt. When she had donned her backpack, she had evidently pulled it up from a rather low point and had managed to catch her skirt with her backpack. There were several things in her favor: it was a full skirt so the extra fabric kind of drooped around the tucked portion of the skirt and it was a long skirt and while it had been caught fairly low and pulled fairly high, it still left her with about a miniskirt length at the highest point.
My own hand snuck around to the back of my skirt in a discreet smoothing kind of fashion, just to make sure that I hadn’t done the same thing in some horrible twist of fate. Things seemed to be as they should have been.
My heart went out to the poor girl. As people dwindled down to only one person between us on the sidewalk, I determined that if I could catch her as we walked into the building, I would try to discreetly tell her of the problem rather than holler ahead to her on the sidewalk and possibly embarrass her further.
She entered the building just ahead of me, with the one remaining person continuing on down the walk. As we entered the building, there was a kind lady from the cleaning staff standing there and spotted the problem before I could stop the girl. “Excuse me, excuse me,” she said, “You’ve got a problem.” Rather than stick around and embarrass the girl further, I turned to head down the hall in a different direction. As I continued on my way, I heard the lady say, “All them folk walkin’ behin’ ya and couldn’ none of ‘em tell ya’.” I felt a twinge of guilt for not having been able to catch her first, for I was “one of them folk.” Oh well, my intentions were good, for as much as that counts.
A Lesson Learned: BE AWARE of any unusual breezes. It could be more than a change in the weather patterns.
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