is anyone out there???

Does this skirt make me look fat?

"Anyone want to go to the fabric store?" my husband asked at dinner one night. Okay, I thought, this ought to be interesting...

We picked out a roll of black fabric and took it to the counter to have it cut. "This is a lot of material," the lady told us, "what are you making?"

"Not me," I pointed to my husband, "he is making a skirt." "That is A LOT of material for a skirt." She told us. "It will be a very LARGE skirt," she continued, dying to know the details.

"It's not for me," my husband finally told her..."It's for my son." He was loving this. The lady turned a bit pale and mumbled, "He must be a big boy..."

Finally, I decided to put her out of her misery and explained that it was a skirt to go around a platform for our son's drum-set. She was very relieved. "How are you going to attach the skirt?" she wanted to know. I stepped back and let them discuss the pros and cons of the various options, tuning them out.

So, we went home wondering whether we could talk our daughter into getting started sewing on her brother's skirt that night...