short shorts

Dear Women that I saw today at the mall,

   I am not even on a first name basis with you, and therefore feel extremely uncomfortable witth the fact that I have seen your booty cheeks hanging out of the back of your shorts.  You know who you are!  I want to (gently) tell you that no self-respecting woman would display in public the parts of her body that only her husband and doctor should see.  I don't care if you are 16 or 60 years old; a size 2 or 200, there is no excuse for it.  Yes, it is extrememly hot outside.  Exposing your hindquarters does not make your body temperature any lower, I'm pretty sure.

As an ode to all of you, I have composed a song... (to the tunes of "pants on the ground" from the last season of American Idol...)

"booty hanging out, booty hanging out...lookin' pretty trashy with your booty hangin' out...."

*I have also composed a second verse of this song for those women who choose to display thier boobs in a similar manner.*

Seriously, though, I try not to judge people by the way they look or the clothes they wear.  But I can't seem to find an excuse for this "style" that I am seeing everywhere.  I saw some shorts so short today that they should have been panties.  I saw one (modestly dressed) mother walking with her teenage daughter in the mall and the daughter's shorts were soooo tiny.  It was crazy.  If I was that mother I don't know what I would think.  (the words "over my dead body are you leaving the house dressed that way" cross my mind!)  I would never allow Lauren to display her body like that and hope that other mothers will take a stand and do the same!

Goodness, I don't mean to open a can of worms here, but I put things on my blog that are a real part of our lives and this is very real to me right now!