Near Miss

Picture this scenario with me for a sec....

Young mother at church is taking her toddler to the nursery.  Her toddler happens to be a little extra clingy today--which means he's got a death grip on both of her legs.  Despite the extra weight and unsteady gait, the mother keeps heading towards the door where both of the toddler's teachers are waiting to greet him.  Somehow the toddler's feet get tangled up in his mother's and he trips.  As he trips, he maintains this death grip on mother's legs.  Mother is wearing a skirt--a somewhat sleek and silky skirt--and as the toddler falls to the ground, mother's skirt falls with him.  To her ankles.  Mother moves faster than Chuck Norris to get her skirt back up to where it belongs while nursery teachers look at her with jaws agape.   

Wow!  Good thing that was just a "hypothetical" scenario, right?  I mean, can you imagine?  How embarassing!  And the poor nursery leaders would've been scarred for life--and nobody knows if anybody happened to catch the whole thing from behind.  Good thing it was all just a made up story, huh?  Talk about a near miss!

(And for the record, because this is my personal record...it must be said that this situation actually did happen *ahem...to me...ahem* today.  My saving grace is that as my skirt went down, my slip remained in place--and because my slip happened to be the same color as my skirt--and because of my catlike reflexes, of course--it all happened so fast it could've been considered an optical illusion.  Oh how I love clingy toddlers!)