When I was in ninth grade we were required to wear gym clothes in gym
class and if you did not have gym clothes God help you. We were
required to either sit out and take the zero for the day or wear some
school issue shiny polyester shorts that were more like green hot
pants. I didn't have my clothes a few days and I took the zero and
sat out but one day when we were frozen into the gym which we shared
with a girl's gym class another boy didn't take my conservative route
and opted for the shorts. He was an awkward dude who was so far from
cool that he might have aspired to being a pariah if he knew what
that meant. He was not going to get a bad grade so he opted for the
tiny shorts and joined the rest of the class jogging around the gym.
It was not instantly, but close to it, when one observant youth
noticed that this poor dude had coupled the school's micro-shorts
with a generous manly endowment to the point of peeking out the
bottom of the leg hole of the shorts. Unfortunately, for this boy he
didn't notice and he ran around and around playing a little
unintentional pudenda-peek-a-boo. Those who noticed told others until
most of the boys and girls we watching him run around until the
teacher finally noticed the wardrobe malfunction and stopped the boy
and got him to straighten out the problem. It became a pretty funny
joke to put some sort of pseudo penis out the bottom of your shorts
and run around in feigned obliviousness. It went on for a couple of
weeks and then because the boy who originated the fad was so
unresponsive to teasing that it just fizzled out except for when you
did some remember-that-timing with friends who had been there on that
fateful day.
