Cut-Off  @ The Gap
       
            >>>A TRUE STORY AND A GOOD LAUGH...<<<
        >>>Cross my heart this happened to  a guy who  lives in Westchester,
        NY,  and goes to school at Ithaca College.  Thanks Belinda for the story!<<<

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        For two years, he had wanted toask a certain girl out on a date,
        but had never had the courage.

        Finally, one day over the summer, he sees her at home and musters up
        the courage to ask her out.  She accepts, and they make dinner plans
        for Saturday night.  However...,
        Friday night, this guy goes out with all of his buddies,
        and drinks like Prohibition is coming back. Saturday, he is in such
        bad shape that he can't make it through twenty minutes without either
        throwing up or using the bathroom.
         
        After several hours of this, he is able to stop throwing up, but
        still running to the toilet every 20 minutes.  He doesn't want to
        cancel the date, so they meet in Westchester, and take the train to
        New York City.  (about a 30 minute trip)

        They get to the restaurant, and he excuses himself to use the
        bathroom. They enjoy the rest of the appetizers without
        interruption, but later he has to go back again.  They decide on
        dessert.  During dessert our hero feels another rumbling but decides
        to try and hold it.  After a bit the rumbling subsides. leaving a
        teensy bit of gas.
        He decides to let this little bit of gas fly right there at the table.
        (discreetly of course)  Unfortunately this little bit of gas came
        with another surprise.

        "Oh crap," he thinks (and feels).
        Instead of running to the bathroom right away, our hero immediately
        leans on the arms of his chair to keep from sitting on this surprise.
        He maintains this "yoga position" for the rest of dessert, trying to
        figure out what to do.  He pays for the dinner, and they leave the
        restaurant.

         He is now walking like a bow-legged cowboy!
         

        On the way to the train station, they pass The Gap."Do you mind if  I
        run in and buy a sweater that I was looking at last week?" he  asks.
        "No problem, I'd like to look around too," she replies. They go into
        The Gap. Fortunately, at the Gap, men's fashions are on the right,
        women's are on the left, so they split up.  Our hero grabs the first
        sweater within reach, and hurries back to the khaki pants.
         
        After selecting a pair that most closely resembled  his current outfit,
        he brings both items to the register.  His eyes are on his date
        (still on the other side of the store.)  He doesn't even want the
        sweater, so he says thru clenched teeth, "Just the pants."

        "What?" asks the Gap girl. "Just the pants!" He replies again.
        (Eyes still trained on his date across the room.)

        Gap girl: "Oh, OK.   No need to be ugly about it!"
        He pays for the pants and walks over to his date, then they leave
        the store, board the train, and find 2 seats in the middle of the car.
        Just before it leaves the station and find two seats in the middle of
        Without sitting down, our hero excuses himself and walks to the
        bathroom in the back of the car.  He gets to the bathroom as the train
        departs, and quickly rips off his pants and boxer shorts.  He rolls
        them into a ball and tosses them out the window as the train rolls
        out of the station.
         

            

        After cleaning himself up, he opens the Gap bag and pulls out...

        ..just the sweater..!