At mothers’ group the other day, one of the mums showed us her breasts no less than four times. I don’t know why, but I chose to share this with my husband, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes him perk up a little and say “I should come to mothers’ group a bit more often”. But then, this is the man who always hopes the Girls Nights Outs I go on involve my friends and I romping around in our underwear hitting each other with pillows. Which is almost what happens, except it’s more like Bollywood-themed parties where we get drunk and dance a lot and where usually mild-mannered lawyers say things like “Man, my sari keeps getting in the way of my air guitar”.
Anyway, I quickly added that this exhibition of breasts at mothers’ group was strictly a one-off. You see, one of our ranks (MW) has surgically upgraded her A-Cup Peanuts to C-Cup Hooters and she’s very excited. And for very good reason: they look spectacular and they make her feel All Woman (with just a dash of silicon thrown in for good measure).
Not surprisingly enough, my husband asked if anyone had touched them, though he hastened to add that this question was the result of an Inquiring Mind and not of a Perverted One. I sighed: No, no-one had touched them. However, I was hoping that, at the upcoming Christmas party, we might all get drunk enough to cop a feel, perhaps as part of a blind-fold test where we put her C cups next to another set of C cups to see if we could feel the difference. Except – of course – gravity would give the game away: one set would be up where we’d all like breasts to be and the other set would be more at waist level. Unless we did the test with both participants wearing the same type of bra, maybe with a little lace edging to enhance the whole “cop a feel” experience…
I suddenly realised I was thinking all this out loud and that my husband was hanging off my every word (for a change). “I think I’d better get [local dad] Matt-Guitar-Murphy in on this.” he said, somewhat dazed. “We can sit in the corner with a few bottles of his Home Brew and Just Watch. You won’t even know that we’re there.”
I think I then tried to change the whole topic of breasts, but he came back to it from another angle a while later. “What should I say when I see [MW]?” he asked. My advice was to keep quiet, unless she herself brought them up (no pun intended). And then, it was probably not a good idea for him to do what I did when I first saw them, which was to exclaim “Hello, boys!!!”.
We then workshopped some possible comments he might make, thinking he could give his remarks a financial slant since that’s his (albeit accidental) current area of expertise and that would keep them purely professional. For example, “I heard you’ve boosted your assets portfolio”. Or “I hope your husband is getting a good return on his investment”. Or “That’s one investment which will guarantee a happy ending these-a-days”. Or…er…
And finally, we (rather sensibly) decided it was probably best for him to avoid her until the novelty wears off completely for everybody – say in about twenty years. And in the meantime, if he thinks that I’m going to tell him the location of our Christmas Party, he’s very much mistaken. My lips and shirt buttons are completely and utterly sealed.
Not Drowning, Mothering. 
Thanks, NDM.
Seriously. Thanks.
0ooo how exciting! i fel like i’ve been blogged by association! and yes he would like to come to the party too but a swift look of death took care of that!
Gee isn’t it funny that my husband was asking the exact same questions about MW! I’m sure it’s all they think about.
Loved it well written.
xx
I could offer my breastfeeding beauties for the test squeeze, but your party would have to be held unreasonably early in the morning as by 12pm my c cups have been suctioned to a squishy b!
Now where did that baby bonus money go to???
I think your hubby and mine have some kind of psychic connection, or maybe its just the mass male subconsious. Have you tried dropping boob related comments into your conversation to get his attention when discussing important things like washing, cleaning and nappy changing? I tried, but the glamour, unbelievably, has worn off. I was telling him a hilarious and true story the other day, which involved the punch line “and then the President of Kyrgyzstan fell on the taxi” and he remarked, “Yeh, and what were his boobs like?”
Just edited my copy as my husband pointed out that his fantasies were about me and my friends hitting each other with pillows *in our underwear* and not in our pyjamas. For some reason, he doesn’t find my XL pair of Qantas business class pyjamas very exciting.
Honestly! Men and the boobie thing!!
You’re back. And you’re brilliant.
Loving the idea of you ‘workshopping’ possible comments your husband might make and the idea that he might Just Watch accompanied by a mate and some Home Brew. You’ve made me laugh (LOL no less) at the end of a tiring Monday.
Don’t abandon us again….
See, this is why I never mention anything about a woman’s body to my husband. I would have to wipe up his drool. He’s still upset that I didn’t point out the girl whose tube top fell down at a bar last time we were out with friends. “But you told your friends *sniff*” Because they don’t gawk, they whisper all the same names I’m thinking.
Seriously, she probably wants the men to comment on her new purchase. I mean, it’s not like buying, say, a new furnace or a roof, where you want to say hey everyone, look at what I just got! – Most ungratifying purchases ever. But something like new girls? Well, wouldn’t you be pissed if you spent all that money and went under the knife and even bought new bras and no one said anything??
FWIW, my girlfriends and I totally would have touched ’em. Not in a gay way, just in a curious way.
Your husband has actually asked me failry seriously if I spent a recent night at another girlfriends house hitting each other with pillows in my underwear.
So, I thought, what the fuck, and said, why, YES. We did. Amazingly perceptive of you.
Its possible I am then enabling this little pecadillo,sorry.
Although – Come to think of it, I actually rather *pride* myself on enabling pecadillios.
So, I take the sorry back!