I just watched a young women run full pelt up the street to catch a bus…that pulled away just as she reached it.
Probably not funny for her in that moment, but funny because we’ve all been there. And I also picture the bus driver doing it deliberately. Just giving her enough of a glimmer of hope then driving off, with an evil chuckle.
Yessss this is what I need
Were these perhaps an example of the inflatable skirts??
I’ve never heard of inflatable skirts, tell me more!
I’ve only heard of them! Hang on, I’ll dig out the podcast…
I’m so intrigued! The ones pictured are made with lots of underpinnings: cages, bum rolls, full panniers, the works. They would have been quite a pain to get in and out of but served to show precisely how much expensive fabric you could afford. So the wider or rounder or more ruffled the better.
I almost yelled when I saw this. I showed it to Wizard and we’re both cracking up.
So glad I could help memes are always the silver lining of any crisis for me.
They really are.
I can’t for the life of me figure out which podcast it was (although I suspect it was Grownupland or Unladylike), I’m pretty sure it was a minor side conversation and not the primary topic for the episode.
That being said, here’s a small, lazy Google overview: