1998 Hosiery Outing
30 oct. 2005 1:57 PM
I just recalled a hosiery story that might amuse some of you. On the other hand, nobody said anything, so it might bore you to tears.
At the end of September [or maybe October] of 1998, I and friend went mushroom picking in the forests of the interior of BC. These mushrooms get sold to Japan as delicacies.
To keep warm, I wore support hosiery under jogging pants and an outer shell. For this particular day, he wanted to cross a river, hoping that most people couldn’t be bothered to do it, and thus it would increase our harvest.
On the way back, we ended up tipping the canoe. To keep the story short, I was in the river for about 15 minutes and had hypothermia. 1 of the locals tried to get me warmed up. To do so, she made me get out of my wet clothes. She just pulled it all off. Nobody said anything about my hosiery. Her son, probably in elementary school, had to take my clothes and put them in a garbage bag. I’m pretty sure that he saw the hosiery.
Some other people lent me clothes while I tried to warm up. While I was warming up, she was attending to me to make sure that I didn’t slip into unconciousness. It’s interesting, because even though things were pretty serious, I took time out to notice her opaque hosiery, which appeared to be quite nice.
I was taken by ambulance to the hospital because they wanted to make sure that I didn’t suffer any problems. At the hospital, 1 of the paramedics needed to pull some medical information out of my wallet. After getting my permission, she looked through the wet clothes and must have seen the hosiery. She never said anything about it.
Later on, I saw her in a local Zellers [like a Walmart], and greeted her. She was wearing opaque hosiery at that time also. Her son was also and giving me weird looks. Maybe he was still uncomfortable about seeing a guy wear hosiery?
That’s about it.
I’m glad nobody said anything about anybody’s hosiery because it would have probably been inappropriate. I believe that in moments like those, it’s better to focus on the emergency.