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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Family & Friends
- Subject: Comedy / Humor
- Published: 09/08/2022
"Who wears short shorts?"
Born 1951, M, from Wilmington NC, United StatesBack in the day there was a song called: "Who wears short shorts?" Well, I did. Every boy did. Look at the thumbnail I provided for this story. That is what men's basketball shorts looked like. Way way way above the knee.
I used to wear shorts like that without embarrassment. For the last three decades I have demurely covered not only my thighs, but my knees, and part of my calf too!
Today though, I had to wear an old pair of shorts. Shorts that exposed my knees and a few inches of my thighs too.
One glance in the mirror made me laugh out loud. So I wrote this email to my friends and family. A quick trip down memory lane. Fashions change my friend.
*****
Aloha All,
I went to High School when Mini-skirts came into style. I loved them. Most girls back then had pretty legs…and I loved seeing them. Never once giving a thought to how they might feel when they had to watch carefully how they sat, moved, or placed their legs. So now flash forward about five decades. And for the first time in over thirty years…you can see MY knees!
Yep. I wish I had pictures of my old CYO Basketball Shorts. There is no way in heck I would wear one of those things nowadays. Let me tell you, they were shorter than any Mini-Skirt I ever saw. Just look at Larry Bird and the rest of the Celtics in his rookie year. You can see from knee to thigh to hip …all the flesh in-between too. Most girls I knew wore “modest” mini skirts just two or three inches above the knee. Some of the more adventurous (or rebellious) wore them a bit higher up than that. But nobody wore them as short as men’s short shorts. LOL
So today I was out of the shorts I bought more than fifteen years ago. They are all in the laundry. Those shorts come down below my knee to the top of my calf. I have been wearing those for almost twenty years. But all three pairs are in the wash. So I had to search my shorts drawer for another pair of some kind of shorts. Lo and behold, I had two pairs from back in the Eighties. Yep.
I put one on - and man I had to struggle with the waist. That was kind of expected. I was smaller back then. Luckily, like a lot of shorts for men, the waistband had room to expand. But when I put them on…well, they stop almost five inches above my knees! Yep, I can see my knees. And it embarrassed the heck out of me. I haven’t seen my knees, nor my thighs, in decades. I felt almost naked.
It is even worse when I sit. They slide up to about two thirds of the way up my thigh. I feel like a tease. LOL It makes me wonder if the girls in my life had to turn beet red when a modest above the knee mini skirt, slid up to expose way more flesh than they wanted to. I bet they felt like I did when I sat down. Flustered and embarrassed- wondering how to pull my shorts back down without garnering any more attention.
Luckily there is no one home (Kathy is visiting little Van Hugo Quinn and Kaylyssa and Kevin over in Atlanta). So the only person freaked out, was me. These aren’t even “short shorts” like the girls down here wear in the summer time, but believe me, mentally I thought I was half naked. It had been that long since I saw either my knees, or some thigh. LOL
I already knew I was white. But holy cow, from my knee to mid thigh is now exposed to the elements, and believe me, there are chicken breasts that aren’t as white as that. So I have this cool two tone look going on. My ankle to the knee are a coarse worn rose color, bleached out of course- and then my knee and six inches of thigh are milky white with fine soft hair covering them. I look like a worn down strawberry vanilla ice cream scoop. LOL
I can’t wait to show them to Kathy. I wonder if she will go: “Nice Legs!” Or will she blush and say: “No way are you wearing those out in Public.” LOL
It could go either way.
Short shorts, mini-skirts, knees and thighs, all in a days memories for me. I am flittering back and forth in time, from when I loved seeing knees and thighs, to the present moment when I haven’t seen either in decades. It was a shock to me.
I hope this either gets a chuckle, a quick trip down memory lane, or a “now you know how we felt” from the girls I ogled back in the day.
I can’t wait for the wash to be done. Then I can grab a pair of long shorts and got outside again. LOL
Smiles, Kevin the slightly embarrassed.
"Who wears short shorts?"(Kevin Hughes)
Back in the day there was a song called: "Who wears short shorts?" Well, I did. Every boy did. Look at the thumbnail I provided for this story. That is what men's basketball shorts looked like. Way way way above the knee.
I used to wear shorts like that without embarrassment. For the last three decades I have demurely covered not only my thighs, but my knees, and part of my calf too!
Today though, I had to wear an old pair of shorts. Shorts that exposed my knees and a few inches of my thighs too.
One glance in the mirror made me laugh out loud. So I wrote this email to my friends and family. A quick trip down memory lane. Fashions change my friend.
*****
Aloha All,
I went to High School when Mini-skirts came into style. I loved them. Most girls back then had pretty legs…and I loved seeing them. Never once giving a thought to how they might feel when they had to watch carefully how they sat, moved, or placed their legs. So now flash forward about five decades. And for the first time in over thirty years…you can see MY knees!
Yep. I wish I had pictures of my old CYO Basketball Shorts. There is no way in heck I would wear one of those things nowadays. Let me tell you, they were shorter than any Mini-Skirt I ever saw. Just look at Larry Bird and the rest of the Celtics in his rookie year. You can see from knee to thigh to hip …all the flesh in-between too. Most girls I knew wore “modest” mini skirts just two or three inches above the knee. Some of the more adventurous (or rebellious) wore them a bit higher up than that. But nobody wore them as short as men’s short shorts. LOL
So today I was out of the shorts I bought more than fifteen years ago. They are all in the laundry. Those shorts come down below my knee to the top of my calf. I have been wearing those for almost twenty years. But all three pairs are in the wash. So I had to search my shorts drawer for another pair of some kind of shorts. Lo and behold, I had two pairs from back in the Eighties. Yep.
I put one on - and man I had to struggle with the waist. That was kind of expected. I was smaller back then. Luckily, like a lot of shorts for men, the waistband had room to expand. But when I put them on…well, they stop almost five inches above my knees! Yep, I can see my knees. And it embarrassed the heck out of me. I haven’t seen my knees, nor my thighs, in decades. I felt almost naked.
It is even worse when I sit. They slide up to about two thirds of the way up my thigh. I feel like a tease. LOL It makes me wonder if the girls in my life had to turn beet red when a modest above the knee mini skirt, slid up to expose way more flesh than they wanted to. I bet they felt like I did when I sat down. Flustered and embarrassed- wondering how to pull my shorts back down without garnering any more attention.
Luckily there is no one home (Kathy is visiting little Van Hugo Quinn and Kaylyssa and Kevin over in Atlanta). So the only person freaked out, was me. These aren’t even “short shorts” like the girls down here wear in the summer time, but believe me, mentally I thought I was half naked. It had been that long since I saw either my knees, or some thigh. LOL
I already knew I was white. But holy cow, from my knee to mid thigh is now exposed to the elements, and believe me, there are chicken breasts that aren’t as white as that. So I have this cool two tone look going on. My ankle to the knee are a coarse worn rose color, bleached out of course- and then my knee and six inches of thigh are milky white with fine soft hair covering them. I look like a worn down strawberry vanilla ice cream scoop. LOL
I can’t wait to show them to Kathy. I wonder if she will go: “Nice Legs!” Or will she blush and say: “No way are you wearing those out in Public.” LOL
It could go either way.
Short shorts, mini-skirts, knees and thighs, all in a days memories for me. I am flittering back and forth in time, from when I loved seeing knees and thighs, to the present moment when I haven’t seen either in decades. It was a shock to me.
I hope this either gets a chuckle, a quick trip down memory lane, or a “now you know how we felt” from the girls I ogled back in the day.
I can’t wait for the wash to be done. Then I can grab a pair of long shorts and got outside again. LOL
Smiles, Kevin the slightly embarrassed.
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Marla
09/10/2022Great job with taking something mundane and making it funny! This was an entertaining read!
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Kevin Hughes
09/10/2022Thanks Maria,
I got my longer shorts out of the dryer and feel decent again. LOL
Smiles, Kevin
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