January 27, 2017

• Looking Bra-less

  I had to toss out a bra. It is always sad when a good bra finally gives up and you have to replace it. It is doubly so when a good bra goes bad. Bad, as in turns evil and hurts you. My throwing away the bra was a mercy killing. It was the same kind of situation as Old Yeller. A good and faithful bra had a dangerous and fatal condition. I thought something had gone wrong when I put it on in the morning. It just didn't feel right. So I adjusted the straps and got dressed. Midway through the day I started having a sharp pain in my ribs on the left side. It only happened when I took a deep breath. I put my hand to my ribs thinking I might be having some medical emergency only to discover that my underwire had broken in half. The wire was trying to poke its way into my chest cavity, no doubt in an effort to collapse a lung and skewer my heart. I was forced to retreat to the locker room and attempt to remove the wire. I couldn't get the wire out of the bra and I couldn't wear the bra with the broken (and sharp) wire. I had to go bra-less. I was wearing my scrub top and a scrub jacket and no one had any idea that I wasn't wearing my bra. Still I had that nervous feeling. The bra was stuffed into my purse and I transported it home. I don't know what I was thinking but I attempted to fix the bra. Sadly there was no cure. With a few choice words, I deposited the bra into the trash basket under the bathroom sink.

  I went shopping for a replacement. I am a little picky. I hate lace. I don't like seams. I'm sensitive to metal (it makes me itch). I went to Meijer. They had the brand but not the style. I examined every display and all the sale bras but couldn't find a worthy replacement. I tried Target. No luck. K-Mart was a complete bust. (hehe) Anyway I ended up at the mall. Penney's had a comparable bra but it only came in either hot pink, bright red or neon blue and was priced at $47.00. Now I adore a good bra but I'm not paying that much. I just can't. Sears had some on sale but not the kind I wanted. There were some other stores - Victoria's Secret and Macy's which made the prices at Penney's look reasonable. And a couple others that carried what I'd consider novelty bras. Not happening. So I made a special trip to Kohl's to see if I could find a replacement at a reasonable price. I looked and found one very similar to the one I'd tossed but the price on sale was $40. Needless to say I was disappointed. I was carrying around the expensive bra when I stumbled upon the clearance bra rack! Every bra was priced at $14.50. I was excited. I had to look at hundreds well maybe just a hundred, of bras in some wild colors and odd sizes but I found it! It isn't white but then again beige isn't really a weird color. Snatching the beige bra off the rack I held onto it as if it were a wild animal trying to escape. It was a really wonderful find and the original price of $60 made it just that much more special. I am no longer bra-less!

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