Attention Plumbers!

You know the ol' cliche about plumbers and their pants riding low and showing their backside? Well, it's really not so much of a cliche. It's real. And it's happening all the time.

Over the holidays, my parents had a plumbing need and so a very nice man showed up the day after Christmas to work on their gas fireplace. The family was sitting in this room, waiting to start a movie (Dan in Real Life, if you must know). We were all poised to hit "PLAY" on the DVD player when he showed up, so we just decided to wait until he was gone. So, we're sitting around just looking at each other b/c he says he'll just be a minute--nobody wanted to get up and start something new since the movie was ready to go.

The poor guy bends down right in front of us all as we're watching him work and wouldn't you know that we see a little more of him than we cared to see.

THANKFULLY, it was cold outside and he had on some long undies.

BUT(T)...they were HOLE-Y long undies. Yes, he had a rather obvious tear in his undergarments and it was nothing but simultaneously awkward and somehow quite funny as we all tried hard not to stare. Even more difficult, however, was trying not make eye contact with each other because we knew it'd all be over then and we would be unable to recover from the hysterics that were sure to ensue.

So, imagine my delight when I saw an ad in the local paper that addresses this problem:

"NO CRACK PLUMBING. WE WEAR OVERALLS."

How delightful is that! I tip my hat to a plumbing company that takes this epidemic seriously!