“Jenny! I found the perfect ski pants for you!” hubby.

I was with the cashier at the Helm’s Snow Sporting store, paying for a very necessary snowboarding pants for my 12-year-old. That’s when I heard hubby shouting for me in the middle of the store somewhere.

I ignored him.

“Jenny!” hubby.

I wasn’t done signing the credit card receipt, and there were only a couple of other customers in the area, so I shouted back at him, “I don’t need new ski pants.”

“Jenny. It is Gore-Tex ski pants!” hubby, unable to control his excitement.

“I like the ski pants I already have!” me.

“Well, come and take a look.” hubby.

I was very annoyed with him. Ski clothes are very expensive. I am not in the habit of buying them for fun.

I wanted to leave the story right away after paying for our daughter’s ski pants, and now I have to look at his Gore-Tex pants.

I walked over to him, in an area thick with densely packed heavy ski clothes.

“Look at this! Gore-Tex!” he pulled the tag to show me.

“That’s size 14!” me.

“Oh, then here is a size 12 for you.” him.

“Are you crazy?!! I can’t wear a size 12!” me.

“Why not?! We just bought a size 12 (for our daughter!), and you guys are almost the same height.” him.

Our 12-year-old's size 12 pants

“That came from the kids section!” I pointed at the kids section, fuming.

A lady nearby heard us arguing, peeked at me, and chimed in, “She can’t be wearing a size 12!” she looked at my husband disapprovingly, peeked at me once more, and declared, “She is a size 2”.

This lady was spot on. I do usually wear size 2.

Not wanting some perfect stranger to think that I am married to a fool, I explained my husband to her: “We just bought a size 12 for our 12-year-old, and now he thinks I am a size 12, just because we are about the same height!”

I turned to hubby, he frowned, then pulled the size 12 Gore-Tex out of its rack, and pull it up to me for measurement.

It nearly fit me like an overall!

“Oh. So, this is women’s size 12.” he quickly put the Gore-Tex back, and walked away.

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