What is this, A Commercial for Underwear?

The first summer that I worked as a camp counselor I became caught in a strange situation. The Camp Administrator had a habit of walking around every night and dropping in on a given cabin without any warning.

My guys were sitting on their bunks having our good-night moment in which each camper aired the positive and negative things that had happened to them that day. I told the boys that they could wear their undies for good-night because they were ready for bed. I should point out that these boys were all pre-pubertal and that "undies" meant standard whitie-tighties.

All of a sudden the door opened and the administrator stepped in. He looked at the boys in nothing but their white briefs and said, "What is this? A commercial for underwear? Get some pants on!" Then he looked at me and told me that I ought to know better.

I felt like I was really on the spot because of something so innocent as letting the boys wear underpants at bedtime.

Next weekend, when there was nobody but counselors and staff on site, I told a couple of the male counselors about the underwear incident. One of them said it had happened to him also, and the other counselor said he had learned his lesson the previous year.

We decided that the administrator had a screw loose. But we also made sure that our guys always wore athletic shorts over their underpants just in case.

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