famous for pantslessness

[psocoptera]

That's me in this news article "sitting in the driveway in her underclothes with her baby".

I would just like to say for the record that I was very pleased to be wearing underpants at all. I don't have a lot of body modesty, underpants aren't really very different from a swimsuit, and the only reason the neighbors hadn't been regularly spotting me in my driveway without pants for the past seven years doing things like taking out the trash or running out to my car for things I left in there is my understanding that people find it concerning when clothing norms get violated and it's not clear why. (Whereas I was confident that everyone there could construct a non-threatening narrative connecting my lack of pants and the fact that my house was on fire.) However it really would have been embarrassing to not have the underpants. So, yay underpants!

Comments

[irilyth]

> if the fire "started in a 2nd story bathroom"

It didn't; their source for that was "Kim Rego, a neighbor", not the firefighters. That wasn't at all obvious, sloppy journalism -- it caught me too, and made me nervous, 'cause if the *firefighters* were getting that wrong, it could be problematic. (Not from an insurance point of view, but if the official reports seem to have contradictions, it just seems like that can only lead to badness.)

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Ah! yes, that WAS sloppy journalism! Yeesh. Glad you all have a place to crash while this gets worked out!

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I believe we are supposed to be receiving something called a "fire report" which is the official writeup of the incident by the firefighters - I assume that if they get something wrong in *that*, we point it out and get it sorted out.