We were watching a sporting event the other day, and we saw an ad where a woman comes home, flops on the sofa, removes her bra while keeping her shirt on and sighs contentedly. I can’t remember what the product was, but the tag line was something like, “It feels THIS good.”
Ad agencies should have mined that “sweet relief of losing the bra” phenomenon to sell crap ages ago because pretty much anyone with boobs can relate. And if you believe surveys, women still do most of the household shopping.
Even though we’ve been married for more than 20 years, my husband remains impressed by my ability to take a bra off under my shirt. He says it should be impossible and calls me “boob-dini” every time I accomplish that feat in his presence.
Anyhoo. Just thought I’d share that. Open thread!
MisterForkbeard
Well, now I have to start calling MY wife “Boob-dini” when she does this. I would like to compliment your husband on this term.
Barbara
I believe it was an ad for beer.
satby
Seriously? I assume they’re just impressed because getting a bra off a 16 year old girl in the back seat of a car was an impossibly difficult task in their youth, and that impression has stayed with them for life.
Because all women can do that guys.
Brendan in NC
@Barbara: Coors Light
Mary G
Pantyhose too.
MelissaM
You go by Betty Cracker when you could be Boob-dini?!?
MisterForkbeard
@satby: Look, I’m not saying it’s HARD, I’m just saying that I respect the skill. :)
Joking aside, I love ridiculous little stories like BC’s story about her husband. That’s lovely.
Ruckus
The things we do to be comfortable.
A pain scale. That only doctors seem to be able to agree on.
Bra removal. Seems about right. And I’ve never worn one.
Putting off chores. I have done that.
seaboogie
I’ve done this discreetly while on an airplane – in coach class…but it’s only really possible with a window seat.
zhena gogolia
There was this magical time called the seventies when you could go without a bra and nobody cared. I miss that so much.
Raven
@Ruckus: I once rounded third and was headed to the plate when my cup flew out of my shorts! I caught it on one hop and scored!
sukabi
Beer, the product being sold in that commercial is beer…either some version of Miller or possibly Michelob…
satby
@Raven: That’s impressive!
ThresherK
This ad has been getting a good reception on the intertubes (well at least the ones I use). There have any number of memes going around about the subject for years. I guess they tested the waters.
Ruckus
@Raven:
A man with a plan.
Ken
@Ruckus:
Amen, brother. Some years ago I went to the emergency room with what turned out to be a kidney stone, and they asked the “scale of 1 to 10” question. Never having been eaten alive by army ants while on fire, I didn’t want to say 10…
Nelle
Ha! After about the first twenty years of marriage, my husband finally said, “What is that sigh you make every night when we’re getting ready for bed?” The sigh of taking off the bra. And yes, whipping it out from under the shirt is a special power.
sheila in nc
My husband sent me this article about the ad.
I totally agree that it is genius. Also I like the realism of the band-aid on the back of the heel.
https://thetakeout.com/why-the-coors-light-bra-ad-is-groundbreaking-1837247704
Jeffro
The Hanes (or is it Fruit of the Loom?) ad for their ‘ventilated’ boxer briefs that’s been playing is hysterical. A masterpiece of metaphor, if you will.
So glad we are taking about these things, um, out in the open. So to speak.
schrodingers_cat
Its not that hard and all women can do it. We are magical!
Raven
@satby: I also have a picture of me between third and home, the throw from left had hit me in the head and you can see it above me!
opiejeanne
@satby: I’ve managed it a couple of times but it’s damned hard for me. It’s not terribly easy getting the arms out of the straps..
opiejeanne
@Raven: That’s not something that’s taught in PE.
Betty Cracker
@MelissaM: Good point…
MisterForkbeard
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed. Women are kind of amazing in general.
Raven
@opiejeanne: It was late in my career when we started wearing softball shorts. It wouldn’t have happened with regular baseball pants and stirrups. Here I is in the dugout.
https://flic.kr/p/4B2uti
Amir Khalid
I remember the scene from Flashdance where Jennifer Beals undoes her bra and removes it from inside her top while carrying on a conversation with a male visitor. I was more impressed that she had no problem doing that in front of a guy, than that she could do it at all.
Betty Cracker
@sheila in nc: I hadn’t realized the ad made such a splash, but I too felt “seen” when I watched it, even though I completely forgot the product. (Can’t stand the taste of Coors, so that part was forgettable for me.)
craigie
@Mary G:
You can take pantyhose off under your shirt? That is impressive.
Percysowner
@Ken:
I had a ruptured appendix that I only put at 7-8 because it wasn’t as bad a labor.
@zhena gogolia: I could never appreciate that magical time, because my boobs are big and floppy and they hurt if they don’t have some kind of support. If I’m just sitting around, no problem, but if I’m active I bounce all over the place and it HURTS.
RAVEN
@Betty Cracker: Yea, the one that promotes morning drinking is hilarious too.
satby
@Amir Khalid: of course, she was flirting.
Kay
I think it looks like magic because you pull it out of your sleeve. Abracadbra.
Amir Khalid
@satby:
True.
FelonyGovt
My mom taught me how to take off a bra without taking off your shirt. When I asked her how SHE learned how, she said she had learned how “during World War II”. I never did find out what that meant.
John Revolta
@Raven: What hopped, you or the cup?
Raven
@John Revolta: The cup, it flew out and I one hopped it!
Steve in the ATL
Let’s just go ahead and rename this thread “TMI”
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: geaux tigers !!
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: are you watching LSU-Texas? Those are impressive QBs and receivers!
Raven
Fuck yes, I’ve had two tv’s up all day! I gave my dawg tix to a friend so he could take his kid. And the suckass vols again.
Betty Cracker
@Steve in the ATL: Heck of a game!
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: saw this on Dawg Sports:
@Betty Cracker: this is what college football is all about!
Another Scott
@sheila in nc: Agreed that it’s very well done. I noticed the bandaid too. I like that it grabs your attention by telling a little story, not trying to be “racy” or “outrageous”. It makes you want to watch, at least until you see it’s a Coors Light commercial.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: You see that catch Pickens made?
oatler.
Cameron Diaz did it in “Bad Teacher”.
Steve in the ATL
@RAVEN: yeah he’s awesome. Shades of AJ Green!
Raven
Fuck Texas!!! Awful secondary.
ETA. Like takin candy from a baby!
feebog
Wouldn’t it be easier just to take your shirt off first?
trollhattan
Windy as hell today in conjunction with first not-roasting day in weeks, so while NorCal is breathing a sigh of relief the wind pushing in from the coast triggers wildfires fucking everywhere.
e.g., https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article234841772.html
Yay.
If local, do not burn your bra.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: WOW!
Glad we’re not playing these guys this season. Until maybe yeh SECCG.
Amir Khalid
@feebog:
Whether you can do that depends on the nature of your relationship with present company.
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: We just didn’t give a shit in the Sugar Bowl, Texas isn’t that good.
Llelldorin
I put acute pancreatitis at a 4 because I have a very good imagination about how much other things might hurt. My wife hasn’t let me live that one down.
Steve in the ATL
@RAVEN: I meant LSU!
Steve in the ATL
@Llelldorin: my wife said pancreatitis was worse than both her labors combined
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: I know, I’m just saying there d ain’t shit and they don’t really run well. We’ve got the whole package this year and I’d love a shot at them,
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: yeah, and we will be playing Clemson for the N.C. and Texas will be in the Blue Bonnet Bowl
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: Astro Bluebonnet Bowl!
John Revolta
@Raven: Pix or it didn’t happen
I kid. I suspected it was that but it’s important to get these things right.
Jacel
As usual, there’s an XKCD strip for that (where “that” is “scale of pain levels”).
RAVEN
@John Revolta: It was 40 years ago!
Steve in the ATL
@RAVEN: I see you’re adjusting to retirement already—awake well past 10 pm!
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: Always during football. I also have to try to get ready for the Irish. I’m flying my brother, the LA Lawyer, in for the game and walking back up that goddam hill through LAw Library is gonna be a bitch after midnight. I park my truck half way home so I don’t have to walk all they way.
JCJ
@Steve in the ATL:
Um, Vandy lost to my beloved Boilermakers today. Not much to be envied there.
Luciamia
Boob-dini. I think I saw that cocktail recipe on YouTube
CaseyL
Taking off the bra under the shirt is a trick I think all women can do, and so far as I know each of us figures out how to do it ourselves. Now I wear bras with no clasps – they’re more like sport bras, all elastic – I don’t think I could manage the trick.
There is an AMAZING thunderstorm going on here now. Seattle gets these so very rarely, it’s a real event.
TomatoQueen
@Another Scott: I’d heard about the ad in advance, but still wasn’t prepared for how well done it was–very light tone, quick to convey the sense of relief without dwelling overlong, graceful. And a nice stick in the eye to Adolf Coors, or his descendants, as he was the RWNJ’s RWNJ. But nothing could improve the taste of the beer, always reminiscent of the needle on E.
Steve in the ATL
@JCJ: better to lose to Georgia and Purdue than to Georgia State and BYU!
@RAVEN: first day of law school they told us “welcome to the top of the hill”. We thought we were badasses until we realized they meant the climb from the parking lot.
John Revolta
@RAVEN: When that One Great Scorer says it’s time for taking stock
He writes not that you won or lost, but whether you kept your jock
debbie
@sheila in nc:
Wow, that is a great ad! And a favorite song to boot!
Sister Golden Bear
Welp, I was gonna watch the UC Berkeley-Washington football game — assuming streaming works well enough — but there’s a severe thunderstorm in Seattle that’s causing an estimated three-hour delay. Apparently the game will not be rescheduled, so either it starts late or not at all.
Fortunately, for me, that means a roughly a noontime start, although that’s screwing up my plans for the afternoon. But I feel for the fans back in the States, especially those on the East Coast.
#Pac12AfterMidnight
trollhattan
@Sister Golden Bear:
Well she-yut, I have the DVR set to snag that. And tomorrow we have the NFL-mandated 49ers game (because we’re SO CLOSE to Santa Clara donchano (even if it’s a 3-hour drive) instead of Clowney’s Hawks debut, so I’m planning a bike ride instead.
Cckids
@schrodingers_cat: Indeed! When my daughter was 9 she played softball. Her team’s pitcher, getting too warm in the layers she was wearing, called a timeout; all the team gathered round her & she removed the long sleeved shirt from under the uniform shirt without taking off the top shirt or exposing anything. The dads were all impressed! The coach, who had three older daughters, was blasé about it: “They can ALL do that. I don’t know when they learn it!”
Sister Golden Bear
@Ken: When I was having the worst of my pinched nerve pain.*
Nurse: How you rate your pain?
Me: It feels like a white-hot sword that’s been dipped in boiling oil, and coated with lime and salt has been stabbed in to the back of my neck all the way to my elbow.
Nurse:
Me: OK, why don’t we just say it’s a 11.
*I never actually got suicidal, but I definitely was at the place where I could see why people in chronic pain kill themselves, and that it might be an option down the road if things didn’t get better.
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: Damn you lightning. A mud bowl is always fun to watch.
hitchhiker
Since we’re open-threading and the UC/WA game is still in thunderstorm delay, is anybody else obsessing about the HBO show, Succession?
It’s just brilliant.
Elizabelle
@sheila in nc: I like that ad. I like the pet fish. I like that she’s skipping the white wine and the salad and the apple.
Nothing would get me to drink Coors Lite, but it’s a good ad.
Steve in the ATL
@Elizabelle: it’s a good Sunday morning beer
mrmoshpotato
Anyone else expecting Michigan to get utterly destroyed in Madison in 2 weeks?
Steve in the ATL
@mrmoshpotato: yes, everyone, including Jim Harbaugh.
Redshift
Ah, this takes me back to a magical time in my teenage years when a couple we were sharing a room with at a convention wanted the rest of us to hurry up leaving so they could, you know. So they started playing strip poker, and she, having lost a round, proceeded to remove an article of clothing without exposing anything.
I’d never seen the trick before, and it made quite an impression.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Steve in the ATL: they have an ad pitching themselves as the Saturday morning beer.
Ruckus
@Ken:
I’ll repost my addition to the pain scale from below for those not paying attention or who came in late.
Described my pain scale to a doc once. He appreciated it.
1-10 is the docs regular scale, ten being that you need to be sedated.
11 is that you wish someone would just shoot you and get it over with.
12 is that you’d shoot yourself if it didn’t hurt so bad you can’t fucking move. I’ve had migraines at this level. I’ve been hit by a truck, and that was not when I was in another vehicle, that was a six, maybe seven.
Sister Golden Bear
@Steve in the ATL: That’s what Corona is for, you savage. //
Redshift
@CaseyL:
Topologically, I think it’s still possible, but you’d have to take it off over your head.
If I’m, ahem, visualizing it correctly.
(That got me wondering if any math professors who have used this as an example in teaching topology. And then wondering how long the time period was when math professors would be likely know about this but it wouldn’t be considered inappropriate to use in class…
Elizabelle
@Steve in the ATL: Sunday morning coming down.
Mary G
The so-called president has now tweeted a photoshop of him, the Sharpied weather chart, and a cat he is waving the laser pen for,
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: I actually laughed out loud when I saw that ?
Mary G
@Major Major Major Major: I didn’t notice that the cat is sitting on the CNN logo. It’s obviously been orchestrated because most of the top commenters I read were fawning MAGAts.
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: yeah seeing the CNN logo was what made me laugh.
trollhattan
@Sister Golden Bear:
I thought we were discussing “beer.”
Oops, my bad. Carry on!
Random sociological observation–groups of women are quite common at many of the region’s small tap houses, to the point they’re nothing out of the norm. Craft beer has democratized beer and given us a pub scene we never had, at least in the last half century and I suspect ever.
Anotherlurker
@TomatoQueen: My old boss, Old Man Cagney, would refer to Coors as being “like making love in a canoe.
F’n near water!”
Kattails
@Amir Khalid: Well yes, that’s one thing– very astute of you; but also, when you walk in the door from work, have to feed the cats, want a drink, it’s chilly, it’s just way easier to slip the thing off without undressing. This is one reason to prefer clothing with loose or stretchy sleeves.
Just got done listening to Morten Lauridson’s “Song of the Roses” on Vermont Public classical. Such a gorgeous piece. Fun factoid, the host noted that it was composed while Lauridson was manning a fire tower and had a book of Ranier Maria Rilke’s poetry. That job, now largely obsolete, was a mixture of isolation, boredom, and relentless vigilance.
Rand Careaga
Some decades ago I was beginning an illicit tryst with an old friend of an evening. I slid my hand up her back and encountered a seamless expanse of spandex where I would ordinarily have expected to find the usual hooks and eyelets. I was nonplussed; she was amused. “Look!” she chuckled, and popped the clasp of her brassiere, a front-loader. I had never encountered one of these. “It’s the greatest invention of our age!” I breathed reverently.
Steve in the ATL
@Rand Careaga: that’s called a Saturday Night Special
Ruckus
@TomatoQueen:
Ship was home ported in Charleston SC when I was in the navy and some guys would drive to CO to pick up several cases of Coors because you couldn’t buy it east of the Mississippi. I never understood why someone would drive across the street for a Coors, let alone across states.
Redshift
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m guessing the wingnuts are trying to convince themselves that Alabama was a clever out to distract the news media?
Also guessing that Trump doesn’t get the joke beyond “ha, ha, stupid CNN!”
smike
@Elizabelle:
Hey, Coors isn’t that bad if you squeeze half a lime in it, and then add 1/2 oz. of vodka.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
My wife claims Girl Scout sleepaway camp as the place she learned the bra trick. But if you all didn’t go to camp I’m mystified as to where and when it was taught.
As I suspected since Elementary School, girls just know stuff.
NotMax
Land of the free and home of the quave.
@Ruckus
Hey, that’s time consuming work!
:)
NotMax
@Elizabelle
Yup. Regular Coors is already a light beer. Coors Lite is gilding the lily.
“How about this? Let’s put ½ beer and ½ water in the same can!”
John Revolta
@Ruckus: because you couldn’t buy it east of the Mississippi
Answered yer own question
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: I do not believe that Coors Heavy actually exists.
mrmoshpotato
@John Revolta: Exotic water that’s gone off.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: Is that an actual Trump tweet? It’s not a parody?
The cat is funny, but Hurricane Dorian is anything but. The US seems to have gotten off lightly. Not so the Bahamas.
What is the purpose of that video, if it is from der Trump?
Elizabelle
@NotMax: Yah. Not a fan of Bud Lite or Miller Lite either. Just drink water. It’s better for you.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
If the existing light version tastes mediocre at best, I guess a heavy version would be twice as mediocre.
Sister Golden Bear
After a nearly 3 hour delay, and nearly 1,300 lightning strikes, the Cal-Washington game is back on — and the video streaming works some I’m able to watch!
We’ll see how well each team is able to get their heads back into the game.
#Pac12AfterMidnight
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
I’m a 38DD. I haven’t been able to go braless since I was 16. It’s just too painful for my girls. ?
Elizabelle
@Sister Golden Bear: Enjoy your game. And stay healing.
Off to bed. Ciao, jackals.
NotMax
@John Revolta
And the cans had those stupid double buttons on top instead of a pull tab. Reason enough to keep a church key around if you actually wanted to be able to drink from the can.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
He’s trying to pretend it was a joke. Because he’s a fucking moron. ?
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: I honestly have never seen regular Coors beer in a store. And I don’t live in Bumblefuck, Arkansas.
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear:
Hot damn!
DivF
@Mary G: There is a scene in the movie “Broadcast News” where Holly Hunter, as soon as she gets to her hotel room, hooks her thumbs into both sides of the waist of her pantyhose and in a single motion (and a look of supreme relief on her face) pulls them off. I had seen Madame use that exact same motion many times so we were both delighted.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
Somebody should check to see if Spielberg is filming in the area.
John Revolta
@NotMax: church key
Blast from the past
Sister Golden Bear
@trollhattan: I blamed Trump. He Sharpied the storm track all the way to Seattle. //
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: Haha Where did Dorian turn north?
MisterForkbeard
@Mnemosyne: More than that – he’s trying to pretend it was all an elaborate plan to trigger the libs (and CNN). Because he’s brilliant, or something.
Ruckus
@John Revolta:
There was a reason you couldn’t buy it east of the Mississippi.
It wasn’t worth shipping that far.
And Coors wasn’t a good enough reason to drive that far. Or even a bad enough reason.
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
I’ll give you the or something. But he ain’t brilliant.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Genius in a stable or something.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Balloon-Juice after dark – bras, beers, football and Mr. Ed
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: lol
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
The four pillars of life in the US – bras, beers, football and Mr. Ed
wasabi gasp
pics or it didn’t happen
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: It was very exciting! It rained like the end of the world for about an hour. We didn’t lose power but we kept the flashlight on hand, and got out the candles. That storm it at a little before 9 where I am and it passed slowly over us, then circled back a couple of times. Maybe 5 times. When the sun comes up we’ll check the trees at the northeast corner of the yard to see if they got hit. The lightning was really spectacular, and we got some awestruck reports from one daughter in Seattle and our niece in Tacoma. They both got hit really hard about 15 minutes before us. The other daughter was camping at Ocean Shores and said it wasn’t even raining there, They were sitting by a campfire.
Chateau St Michelle’s Saturday outdoor concert with Chris Isaak ended a little early. We could hear it from our house and the drums blended with the approaching thunder so well that it sounded like one long continuous rolling of thunder. The cats were not amused.
JPL
@opiejeanne: Hopefully you don’t have any damage.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: I’m envious. I do enjoy a drenching, crazy lightning storm (from behind my closed windows).
low-tech cyclist
@Amir Khalid:
My wife almost always wears dresses to work, so it’s simply easier for her, on arriving home, to do the boob-dini move (as it will now be known) than to take the dress off, remove the bra normally, and put the dress back on.
Besides, she’s been doing this for ~40 years. She can take the bra off from under her dress or top almost as quickly as she can take the bra off when she’s already down to bra and panties.
low-tech cyclist
Since there’s been some discussion of the 1-10 pain scale in this thread, I should share the classical artists’ version of the scale.
Zinsky
A British wag once said, “I am a firm believer in big breasts, as well as a big believer in firm breasts”.
schrodingers_cat
@feebog: Sometimes you want to be comfortable without undressing. Its quicker, a one step process, rather than a 3 step process.
zhena gogolia
Lots of humblebragging on this thread :)
trnc
@Raven:
Just how many metaphors are we talking about here?
trnc
@Mary G:
Yeah, the first 4 or 5, but it pretty quickly became loaded with responses that give me some hope for this country.
debbie
The trick can be a bit tougher if the bra is underwire and the sleeves are narrow.
Scuffletuffle
@Redshift: actually, straps off first, then down over the hips.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: When the mountain turns blue, you know the stuff inside is so cold you can’t taste it – which is the only civilized way to drink Adolf’s Fascist Piss.
Look, there is a very specific & limited time & place for “American beer”: Served at ~4 F, with ambient weather >95 F & >70% RH, a picnic table swathed in old newspapers** & piled high with Chesapeake Bay steamed hard crabs. Which is pretty much what Natty Boh*** was designed for.
** One of the few remaining constructive uses for dead tree editions.
*** Many years ago a friend visiting from Newcastle UK (the epicenter of Newcastle Brown Ale) declared that of all the USAn brews he sampled on his stay, Natty Boh was his favorite – he liked the extreme hopsiness (hopsicity?). Go figger.
Michael Cain
My first year in graduate school, I TA’ed for a math professor who started about one class per month with some sort of demonstration to show the calc students there were all sorts of kinds of math. One of the demonstrations was similar to the bra thing. For mental imagery, he was tall, lanky, about 70 with brilliant white hair and Abe Lincoln style beard, always wore a black suit to class and never took the jacket off. For the demo, he had an unbuttoned bright green vest under his unbuttoned jacket. “Is the vest inside the jacket, or not?” he would ask. Eventually he would get the class to agree that if he could take the vest off without taking the jacket off first, then it wasn’t really “inside” the jacket. He would then go through an exaggerated set of contortions and remove the vest. The final move brought the vest out the jacket sleeve. “One of the things you study in topology,” he would said, “is the mathematics of inside vs outside.”
TomatoQueen
@Ruckus: Your colleagues driving to CO to acquire what must’ve been Coors in the yellow can gave me a sudden visual of the 3 middies who used to hang with us johnnies for nefarious purposes (chess and go, mostly) on weekends. One of them produced a case of the stuff, expecting to be praised for such ingenuity, I guess. By the time I got my share, the case was nearly done: you see, we were so used to Rolling Rock….
Miss Bianca
Oh, my goodness. The bra trick, yes. The pantyhose trick? Beyond me. Fortunately, we are all so far beyond feeling the need for pantyhose here in Sticksville that none of the local shops – not even the Dollar General and the Family Dollar glowering at each other across their respective parking lots – carries it. So I guess now I’ll never learn that trick!
Ruckus
@low-tech cyclist:
That is a far better rendition than the cartoon chart that is posted everywhere at the VA.
@TomatoQueen:
Not really a beer fan, when I would drink it, my usual was more along the lines of dark beer. Have been for almost my entire life, a whiskey drinker. Started at 3 yrs old at a cocktail party parents were throwing, drinking from people’s glasses as they set them down. Mom said I was drunk as the proverbial skunk. Beer, wine were OK but just not what I had the taste for. And liquids like Coors were like being on the ocean, too near to water. And yes I’ve had Rolling Rock, as pale beers go it wasn’t baaaad. Just not enough alcohol content to bother.
WaetrGirl
@zhena gogolia:
I have done it on a plane.
I have done it on a train.
I have done it in a car.
I have done it in a bar.
I could go on like this forever.
I love you, Betty, for posting this thread.
ljdramone
@Steve in the ATL: My experience with gallstone pancreatitis about 5 years ago (followed by gallbladder surgery) is my benchmark for 10 on the pain scale.
I guess the hospital staff agreed, since they gave me IV Dilaudid while I was still in the ED’s triage room.
MoxieM
@seaboogie: ah, youth! depends on boobage, and arthritis. In the worst case of course, just un-hook, then you only need to depend on a shawl or a sweater. To hell with gravity!
Palindrome
Somewhere back in the eighties we were driving when the defroster in our car broke. I slid off my bra (cotton – I’m poor) and wiped the windows. 30 years later my hubby still says that is the sexiest thing he has ever seen- us driving down the road and me with no bra.
HD
@seaboogie: I did the bra trick in the middle seat, between my husband and son who didn’t notice, of a 747 on a night flight to London this summer. What was I thinking wearing the darned thing in the first place?!