#because awkward

‘Meeting in 25 minutes’

Me, staring at my email icon, willing it to ding that the meeting was cancelled:

So I’ve totally put bras and underwear on Christmas lists to my parents-I get that it’s not normal, but hey, shit’s expensive and why should I waste time and money getting hung up on whose money purchased it? I’m not asking them to pick it out and it’s not like x-rated lingerie sets or anything, but I digress.

Usually it’s been kind of a shrug-worthy awkward sort of situation, but overall not something I’ve thought about. Guess it was about time that changed.

I was hanging out in my basement when the door at the top of the stairs opens and my Dad--who is the type of person to do stupid things that seem really fucking creepy but he honestly is just dumb (like the time he curiously popped his head into the girls’ bathroom during a college tour without realizing it was inappropriate until my mother and I explained it. More than once. Seriously.)--innocently yells down:

Dad:  “That bra you wanted doesn’t have a specific size. You have to pick the size you want. What size are you?”

Me: *starts blushing. Pauses. Bursts out laughing*

Mom: (who is nearby and overhears) *also bursts out laughing*

Dad *is confused and voices confusion* *has confusion explained to him and gets a bit flustered and, rightfully, puts the strangeness back on me*

Me: *manages to tell him the size and tell him to forget it when that color is out of stock and that I’ll send him something else while trying to stop awkwardly laughing. Fails*

starts: strong

on board with the theory that Suyin's father was Sokka