Two underwear tales
(that both involve my snister*)
This summer, my snister, Christina, gifted me a pair of boy cut Brooks running shorts that she picked up at a sidewalk sale. How sweet that she thought of me!
But when I saw the shorts I only thought one thing – I can’t wear booty shorts! I’m an 7″ inseam gal. I need more fabric than that (to keep skin from rubbing together).
Christina asked me a few times if I’d tried them on and I kept saying no. I felt bad for not using them.
Then, this winter, I had an idea – I could use them to keep my buns warm in really cold runs. Yeah! Brilliant!
So I grabbed them, and went to remove the tag (hadn’t even done that yet) and noticed it said “thermo boy short,” and read the description:
The ultimate baselayer for cold-weather runs. Stay toasty and comfortable by slipping these super-soft thermal boy shorts on underneath your favorite running pants, tights, or shorts.
Wait a second! These aren’t even shorts! They’re basically underwear! FOR cold weather running.
Oh my gosh, I’m such a derpitty for not even reading the tag until four months after she gave them to me. Derr derr derr. There was never any reason to be afraid of them! How silly that I let one look make me think they weren’t for me, before investigating further.
Now I use them whenever it’s 15° or below (or if I’m wearing tights I think might burst like at Sunday’s race) and I LOVE them. Which is odd – I never wear underwear when I workout… unless it’s cold, I guess! I think I might order a few more pairs!
Buah ha ha. And this story. My snister and her husband bought a new home and we visited over New Year’s and had a great time! Right before the trip I was complaining to Christina about Target jeans (don’t buy them!) and how the dye is rubbing off on my hands and coat (seriously, I had to get the coat dry cleaned) and it’s MAKING ME CRAZY.
So we’re sitting on her brand new beige couches and she’s like “um… are those the awful Target pants?” (that I had on). I told her yes and she asked “can you please take them off?”
One of the horrible pairs of Target pants (yes, I have two pairs… sigh). Oops.
I immediately went upstairs to take them off. I felt bad I sat there at all! What was I thinking? I didn’t want to ruin her new furniture!
Then I came back downstairs. Without any pants on. Christina didn’t see me enter the room but she saw me after I sat down.
Oh my gosh, the look on her face! Ha ha ha! I don’t think she was expecting me to come back with NO pants. We both laughed. Then she gave me sweat pants to wear. And explained the rules of who gets to go pant-less in the house (I guess you have to live there).
Dexter doesn’t have to wear pants since she lives there. Lucky.
Ha ha. I still laugh now when I think of the look on her face!!!
It seems pretty obvious but neither Brooks nor Target sponsored this post.
*for newer readers, “snister” is the pet name my sister and I call one another
Themocracy
I saw a little girl in the clinic a while ago. Her mom brought her in because both of her legs were blue. We took an alcohol pad and wiped the color off her skin. Yep, dye from the jeans…LOL!
Oh my gosh! That is hilarious! They must have been relieved! 🙂
Lol… Hilarious underwear stories 🙂 thanks for the warning on the Target jeans! That is really unfortunate.
Yeah! It’s the Mossimo brand (the dark ones). Maybe other brands (or lighter washes!) are okay.
I never thought about thermal underwear, but I’m a wimp when it comes to cold weather now. I paid my dues in Boston and I’m done with it. If I move anywhere in the colder climes, I’m in trouble.
I wonder if you’d get used to it again. Or you could just run inside 😀 It’s good to have options!
Oh man, I have a couple pairs of really dark target jeans (one black, one really dark blue). I haven’t noticed the dye rubbing off on anything, but our couch is dark gray and my coats are black and dark gray. Does it help if you put them through the wash?
I’ve washed each pair about 10 times and that doesn’t seem to help. Maybe I am supposed to wash them with a special wash though? Are your jeans Mossimo? Those are the ones I am having issues with.
Hahaha! I am laughing at the thought of you hanging out with no pants at your sister’s house! I have dark jeans from Banana Republic which still do the same thing. So I don’t think its a cheap Target thing, necessarily.
I have some wool underwear that I LOVE for winter running. Its thin wool and good for sumer, too, but I prefer to use the underwear in my running shorts 🙂
It should be allowed at your sister’s, right? LOL
Yeah, good point. I should be nicer to Tarjayjay 😉 I usually buy Eddie Bauer jeans, and was in a pinch so I went to Target. Anyway, I have never had that happen with the Eddie Bauer ones.
What kind are they? 🙂 I don’t have any shorts with the built-in ones!
I love your sister’s shock, but she did only tell you to take your pants off! I may have to investigate those shorts, my bum is always freezing after outside runs and I have just been wearing two layer of pants.
Yeah, I was just wearing capris under my tights, before! Let me know if you try them! 🙂
No underwear!? I wonder if any guys go commando whilst running?
Surprisingly, that’s never come up when I run with men 😉
If they don’t wear underwear, I hope it doesn’t come up.
BWAHAHAHA!!!! This is hilarious.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Love your final disclaimer. 😉 I’m glad that your gift is finally working for you, and I’m even gladder that you weren’t tempted to go work out in underwear. That would be pretty embarrassing!
Oh gosh, can you imagine if I wore those at bottoms?! EEEK!!!!!
OMG, I am laughing so hard over here. I would have totally come down without pants on too! AND…I didn’t realize they made cold weather underware, that would have been REALLY helpful last winter as I trained through the polar vortex for Boston. I would literally have a red bum for HOURS after coming in from my long runs!
Buah ha ha. Gotta tease our siblings/family, right?!
Yes! My butt, thighs, and stomach will get SO red. These do really help. I had heard of warm weather running underwear, but not these! Makes more sense than warm weather ones, to me!
I couldn’t wait to see where you were going after seeing this blog title. Ha. I have running underwear, different brand. They do keep you warmer. Your snister was asking for that one!
Lol! I am happy it enticed you! Which brand do you use?
She was sooooo asking for it! 😉
I’ve had the dye problem lol dyed my undies and the rim of a shirt dark blue – it doesn’t come out for me!
Your sweet snister gave you something to keep you warm and you missed it lol wait until she read this 🙂
Yeah! I CANNOT get it out of the clothes it stains, on my own! What is up with that? Really though, it makes me the most nuts to have it under my fingernails!
Ha ha ha! I wonder what she will comment on this post! I did have her proof-read it, since so much of it was about her, and I wanted to get the stories right 🙂
Very cute stories.
Thanks for the disclaimer because I totally expected this to be a sponsored post. LOL! Both are funny stories! I love the idea of warm undies. When it’s single digits and below my butt cheeks freeze!
Buah ha ha! We gotta write that, right?!
Do you have a pair?
No but I like the idea of them! 🙂
When I saw this blogpost on my feed I thought it said “two underWATER tales” and I thought maybe you went snorkling or something…uh, nope!
Underwear is much funnier, though!
I will be going snorkling in just over a week! 😀 I will write about that for you. And have GoPro pics!
so funny!!
Yikes on the jeans! Can you wash them a bunch of times and get the excess dye out? I found Target sheets to be disappointing as well. Weird since they do so many things right.
So far, that hasn’t helped. I think maybe I have washed them 10x? I should keep count to see when they stop. I mean, it’s definitely gotten better!
I have heard that about their sheets! But yeah, they do get SO many other things right <3 <3 <3
Best disclaimer ever, hahahahahaha.
Gotta keep the FTC happy! 😀
Ah, Kim, this post cracked my shit up (especially your disclaimer at the end). Also, I totally “forgot” (or hadn’t thought about) dressing for < 15ºF runs; I'm glad you have fancy thermal bootyshorts now! Did your sister know what they were when she got them, or was that a pleasant surprise for both of you?
Aww, thanks! 🙂
I am under the impression she knew what they were! She probably was wondering all summer why I wouldn’t just try them on, ha ha!
I read this twice and I laughed each time I read it. 🙂
Aww, thanks!