Thursday 15 December 2005

Germany or Bust


My husband just returned from a business trip to Germany. I had gone to do some work in the bedroom (actually to hide from the kids until they found me) when I sat down on the bed next to a pair of his neatly folded underwear. I looked over at the laundry basket and noticed that he had thoughtfully emptied the contents of his suitcase into it except for this sole piece of clean apparel. Underwear. My attention was drawn back to this undergarment sitting on the bed beside me. Green, relatively new....maybe a year or so old. No holes. He brought them to Germany with him.

I have never been to Germany. I've been to Toronto, Quebec City, New York City, Niagra Falls, Orlando and Ormond Beach Florida. Never Germany. I've never crossed the ocean or had the pleasure of an 8 hour flight. In fact I've only flown a couple of times. In my 40 years on this planet I, a big city girl, have only seen a small handful of places that are not actually that far away. In the one year that they have existed, my country boy husband's underwear have been to Toronto and Germany. They are world travelled undergarments. They are better travelled than me. I am jealous .... of my husbands underwear. (Let's keep the thoughts clean here people!)

Since I am the proud parent of four....yes, count 'em four lovely very young girls, it is unlikely that I will be travelling anytime soon over the "big water", as my oldest daughter called it, when they (my husband and his underwear) went to Ireland...wearing different world travelling undewear that I am also jealous of.) This being the case, the next time he travels, I think I will slip a pair of my undergarments into the suitcase so that I can say, although I've never been overseas, at least my underwear has.

[snicker! Let's see him explain those to customs!]



6 comments:

Kurt said...

I've been to Germany - you ain't missing much.

April_Mommy said...

I say do it! The underwear will never be the same :-)

fourth_fret said...

now that would be funny. and maybe once he discovers them in his suitcase, he can take poloroids of your undies visiting different landmarks. heh.

Deb said...

That would be priceless! LOL!

Asaph's Table said...

Were the green undies "Twilight Zone" boxers??? (Hee, hee...)
If you take fourth fret's suggestion, you could enter the snapshots in a photo contest...
That would be a great conversation piece!

Patti said...

Now just make sure it's your "very best" and not the old lady cotton undies!