Honey that’s wonderful news! Tell DeeDee she is always welcome and we can’t wait to see you both. We should have some sweet corn by July but plenty of tomatoes and even raspberries. So we’ll be ready for a crowd! I went nuts at Costco on Thurs and got a whole gallon of that bbq sauce and they had very high quality beach towels in nice colors and got four of those PLUS four pairs of UNISEX one-size-fits-all thongs. Daddy and I have been sharing the same old pair of thongs out on the back porch forever! But these are nice and I’ll save them for your guests in case the others decide to come…
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How is a shoe one size fits all?
June 9, 2008 at 1:07 pm
For a second there I forgot flip-flops were called thongs…
June 9, 2008 at 1:14 pm
The underwear “thongs” stole the name from the shoes “thongs”. Flip-flops were “thongs” in my house.
June 9, 2008 at 1:43 pm
OMG. Thank goodness for the comments. I would have continued thinking underwear.
June 9, 2008 at 1:44 pm
that is TOOOO funny! Flipflops were also only called ‘thongs’ in my house, but it’s still funny.
June 9, 2008 at 2:18 pm
My mom finally stopped saying thongs instead of flip -flops! I had a particularly awkward shopping experience at the beach with her a few years ago.
June 9, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I will never forget the first time a 3 year old in my swim lessons class told me she had worn thongs to school….I almost passed out….it’s still funny though!
June 9, 2008 at 6:23 pm
hahahahahah… nothing like sharing old thongs out on the back porch!
June 9, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I love how simple it is to be ready for a crowd: corn, tomatoes, raspberries, and that wild and crazy impulse shopping for the gallon of BBQ sauce! This just sounds like a mom ready to party! (And oh, yeah, sharing the old thongs on the back porch cracks me up, too.) But really, doesn’t this sound like a sweet family to bring friends home to?
June 9, 2008 at 7:14 pm
A teacher friend once told her class of 5th graders to make sure they wore thongs on the field trip to the beach. They quickly corrected her: Flip-flops! Flip-flops!
June 9, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I had already laughed out loud before realizing that thongs meant flip-flops.
June 10, 2008 at 4:51 am
either the mom has a really big foot or the dad has a really small foot. hahaha… moms love costco…
June 10, 2008 at 10:40 am
OMG, when I hear “thongs” I don’t think footwear, so this was just KILLING me!
June 10, 2008 at 11:43 am
I totally agree with Kelly… where are these magic shoes?
June 10, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hey, if the sand is too hot, you’ll wear anything to keep your feet from cooking, even Dad’s gnarly old thongs.
June 11, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Some people get thongs confuse with tongs used to flip things on the barbeque. Imagine the difference one letter makes!
June 15, 2008 at 11:47 pm
What’s funny is that my mother reminded me about the other thongs after I read this and laughed my behind off! That was great!
June 20, 2008 at 10:38 am
We finally broke my mother of saying “thongs” after we were on vacation and she yelled to me, “go check and see if your brother’s thongs are in the car.”
We figured it out, but both my brother and I were traumatized for the rest of the weekend.
June 20, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I was once told my a supervisor not to wear “thongs” to work because they weren’t professional. Boy, was I glad when I figured out she meant my shoes and not my underwear!
July 15, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Too darn funny! Recently I asked my sons (ages 16 and 12) has anyone seen my Thongs?…they turned around and loked at me and promptly told me that was DISGUSTING!!! At first I was perplexed..then realized that these tech-age boys didnt have a clue what I was talking about…giggling to myself..I said” Never mind I’ll just ask Dad he was probably the last to see them!’…oh you can imagine the looks I got then!! I just couldnt resist messing with them like that!! I finally explained to them what the true meaning of thongs were before they started a petition to send me away…wait what was I thinking? I should have left it at that!! ROTFL!!!
Loved this “thong” story!! TFS!
July 16, 2008 at 11:25 am
Oh man, that’s awesome. Where I live, “thongs” are Jandals and thongs are..well..thongs. It took me a while to understand hahaha
July 20, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Wow, I am glad someone clarified the thong part. I knew they are flip-flops too, but for some reason I didn’t think they were talking about that.
August 2, 2008 at 10:35 pm
We had the same thong/flip-flop name problem about the time I graduated from high school. The principal was making an announcement about graduation attire and says, “Thongs will not be allowed, and we will be checking!” You can imagine how that went over with the student body…
August 7, 2008 at 1:25 am
I have never heard of flip flops being called thongs. I am actually crying over this because I keep visualising underwear…but I am also laughing at the post about the mom asking her sons if they had seen her thongs!! Priceless!
August 10, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I’m still laughing!!! That is just too funny.
September 11, 2008 at 12:38 pm
This is the most I’ve laughed at any of the ones on here! Seriously, I can’t stop. I didn’t get that she was talking about shoes until I started reading the comments. Unisex thongs to share with the guests…
January 31, 2010 at 2:40 pm
OMG, now I’m stuck with a vivid image of fifty-somethings wearing unisex thongs…
February 23, 2010 at 1:43 pm
My grandmother calls flip flops “thongs”. She was telling my fiance once about how she wears socks with her thongs because her feet get cold. The look on his face was priceless.
November 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I quickly learned that thongs were no longer shoes, but instead underwear when I began teaching HS. In the south we call this baptism by fire :o)
November 18, 2010 at 8:31 am