Claustrophobic...in a dress....

I told my friend MM I would never tell this story, and HERE I lay on the sofa typing my embarrassing story of terror......

MM and I take an annual shopping trip, each being a mother of three kids we don't go shopping much, it's too hard to try on clothes, match the shoes, find the jewelry....so we just save it all up and go at once, together, abandoning our husbands with the kids. They don't question it anymore, it's what "sisters" do.

MM and I don't live up the road from each other like we used to, so I drove to her house Fri night so we could wake up early Sat morning and start our fun filled, girl day.....I think we're going to throw in a little Mimi's for lunch, and PF Chang for dinner....and maybe a mani-pedi too.......

SO ANYWAY, here we are in Target, piling the clothes in our cart...."oh this is cute, no this one, hey that's my size" (you can obviously tell we haven't shopped since our last annual shopping trip). I find the cutest dress. Khaki colored, tailored style, with a brown belt....oh I'll have to post a picture. Now let me say, my body size right now is the biggest it's been on any shopping trip to date (we skipped our pregnant years, and we've always been pregnant at the same time. all three of her kids were born within a couple of months of all three of my kids).

So I go into the dressing room and slip into this super cute dress. It was "snug" but I was able to tug it over me and fit in fairly easy. I zip it up and LOVE it right away. But this isn't the right size, it is not very unforgiving of my tummy area, so after I show it off to her and we agree I need to try on a size larger I go to unzip the dress, unzipped it until it stopped and try to take the dress off.

Suddenly I felt claustrophobic, in a dress!!!! I could NOT get the dress off! I tried pulling it over my head, and I tried stepping out of it and it would not BUDGE. I was stuck.  I was trying to remain calm but I just couldn't "I am STUCK" I hollered to MM across the dressing room (she was in the one across from me). She laughed "you can't be stuck". I yelled back "Oh yes I can, and I AM stuck...." At this point I hyperventilate, I literally start envisioning myself having to borrow scissors from a Target employee and CUT myself out.....

So MM comes over to help me, all to find out that I hadn't unzipped the dress all the way......really? What? Yes. When I THOUGHT I had unzipped the zipper it had hit a snag and I thought I'd finished....I was so claustrophobic in that dress, it wasn't funny at the time...but it sure is now.

I do have to ask, why do ALL the embarrassing things happen to ME and never to MM?! I will spare the other embarrassing stories that she and I share....this one is good enough for now....