One, Two, Zip Your Pants

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

One of the things that I got when moving down here was new work clothes.  I got 5 new pairs of pants and 6 new shirts.  This was a moving gift from my Mom (thanks Mom).  We went shopping one night back in Indiana.  I had not been clothes shopping with my mom in like 20+ years.  It seemed a little weird at first.  But hey, this was free clothes, so I got over it.

I decided not to wear any of the new clothes until we got down here to Texas.  Most of the pants were the same brand and style and all had both a button and a metal hook type connector.  It was here that my mind must have been confused.  My mother was with us the first few days in Texas since she helped us move down here (well, you do the math, we had the van, the Buick and a U-Haul and only the wife and I to drive them - believe it or not, it was cheaper to pay for her hotel room on the way down and a plane ticket back than it was to rent one of the pull behind devices to tow one of the vehicles).  Anyway, I was saying, Mom was with us for the first few days here in Texas.  Consequently, she was able to see my go to work in the clothes that she bought me.

The first morning she noticed that I had forgotten to zip my pants.  This has got to be a "Mother" thing since she noticed this right off the bat, right as I was leaving my bedroom and heading toward the kitchen.  Like she had this mental checklist to go over before I left the apartment, and "check fly" was toward the top of the list.  As I recall, I also left the pants unzipped the next day or two.

This really bothered me since I have been an adult for some time now and having my pants zipped before I leave the house is something that I thought I had mastered in my 37 years.  I chalked it up to being a result of getting dressed in a strange surrounding (the new apartment) and did not think about it again until earlier this week.  I think I have found a valid excuse.  You see I believe that mentally I was counting to two when putting on my pants.  1) Button Pants and 2) Zip Pants.  Since these new pants had both a button and a metal clasp (now steps 1 and 2), my mind stopped there and did not get to what was now step 3 (the zipping).  All my old pants just had the 2 steps and I just could not compute a 3rd step.

Are you buying this?  Didn't think so.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

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