Shame

At the church we attended while my children were growing up, there was a monthly social event for juvenile church members. Its name was called, "Kid's Nite Out", and parents could drop their children off for a time of activities and refreshments. The adults were then free to meet for dinner or drive to the nearby bookstore for a heavenly evening of uninterrupted browsing.

One of those Saturday evenings, after we had returned home, and I was settling in to read the lovelies a book, Luke announced baldly, "Kevin So-and-So saw my butthole."

"Pardon?" is what I said.

"Kevin So-and-So accidentally saw my butthole," is what Luke said.

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However, I did not refrain from asking, "How does one person manage to see another person's butthole accidentally?"

Luke explained that his elastic-waist britches had slipped too low while he was giving his younger sister Allie a pony ride. Way too low. Still bewildered, I asked how someone could see that if only the britches had slipped down. Luke then admitted he had not donned any underwear while dressing. (Apparently, this can eat into a person's time.)

But there's a life lesson for all of us in Luke's explanation that, "When you're playing pony, your crack just naturally opens up."

After we had discussed all the ramifications of this event, Luke hoped tentatively, "Maybe Kevin will forget by tomorrow."

I laughed in his face.

It seemed an absolute certainty that Kevin So-and-So would tell the entire children's department the next morning. In light of that certainty, we managed to laugh, shrug our shoulders, and return to our book. But the following day at church, everything went off without a hitch. Kevin So-and-So had not been a problem, seemingly forgetting the whole incident (no pun intended).

All up until Allie spotted Kevin in the hallway, and confronted him, yelling shrilly, "Have you been going around telling people about Luke's butthole!!!???"