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Instructing Engineering merit badge has its emotional highs and lows.  One of those moments is when I review the Willow Island catastrophe where 51 workers were killed when improperly engineered scaffolding collapsed.  At near the height of this section when I review how the caterpillar scaffolding failed one of the kids pulled a pair of boxers out of his jeans.  A F*&#ING PAIR OF BOXERS.  He procedes to verify their cleanliness by putting them over his head and puffing up the legs by blowing on them.

My best recovery was using the systems investigations method to figure out what happened.  Apparently, when he put his cloths away, he didn’t notice a pair of boxers in his jeans.  How do you wear jeans for a day and not notice a ball of cloth somewhere?

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Dad’s jean collection for the most part consists of things that lie somewhere between “rugged” and “vapor” so for Christmas I decided to get him some jeans.  To not give away the secret I looked through the laundry to find the smallest pair knowing it’d be my father’s.  I found a beat up pair of 32 x 29s and quickly purchased a number of pairs and put the laundry back in my dad’s hamper.  This morning, my brother’s girlfriend was unable to find the pair of jeans she threw in my brother’s laundry and I quickly realized I had 4 incoming pairs of jeans that would fit no one in my house but my brother’s girlfriend.  I found out that Chris Lutz wears a 32 x 30 and figure I can unroll the cuff to cover the difference.  No one tell him from where the secret bounty of denim he received for Christmas came.