Being a recovering stress-related-diabetic-manifest, it didn’t take a grand deal for my mother to get annoyed. Her doctor promptly warned her about mood swings, irritability and hot flushes, this mid-life age and her acquired state of health was going to bring her. She took no time to accept this and declared to herself and us, that anything that annoyed her, would be dealt with in a mature, non-menopausal method. And she really did.

Because when my brothers and his cousins got caught by the really annoying trend of wearing the pants way below their waists, she proved herself yet again with the way she dealt with it. She told them repeatedly about body shape, the disgusting, not to mention indifferent image it brought about, the unaesthetic look about it and everything else to persuade them to wear their jeans around the area of the anatomy it is meant for. But as most teenagers have it, the boys ignored the comments like fine print and this was a sure recipe for my mothers rise in blood pressure and a fall in tolerance levels. Yet she didn’t create a dramatic scene.

She went and googled the idea of boys wearing their jeans at the end of their behinds and soon found out how and why it originated. Her minor research undertaking revealed that destitute of certain cold regions of the world had to live off clothes at the mercy of others and they seldom found pants that fit them right. They were forced to wear pants lower then their waists so as to keep their ankles from freezing. This image made its way to the runway and very soon misfits managed a perfect spot on the fashion scene. This news she brought home and felt accomplished about having dealt with the situation in a mature way, without having to stage her drama queen acts.

My worthy cousins and blessed brother heard this with keen critical observation and then while my mother hoped for them to consider wearing pants at their waists and not their knees, one of them did it for her. His exclamation of how he thought the destitute had a great sense of fashion and his belief that they will one day rule the runway made my mother want to give up advising to teenagers. My cousins wants to look at more homeless for fashion tips.