I Thought You Knew

Deb was wearing a short skirt with tights to work at Penn Aluminum of Murphysboro, Illinois one day. She was a successful business woman and was production control manager there for fifteen years, until multiple strokes made her unable to work. 

When getting into her car, with both hands full, Deb stretched across the drivers seat to lay her purse and computer down. Then straightened and climbed behind the wheel. Deb noticed as she got into the car that her skirt had worked up, but thought she would fix it when she arrived at work.

The drive to her office was about fifteen minutes, then Deb got out, straightened her skirt, reached across the seat, picked up her belongings and walked into the front door. All the way to her office at the back of the plant Deb was speaking to each person she met. But when she met her normally friendly boss, he averted his eyes when she spoke to him. Deb said she snarkily thought, "What's your problem?" but silently continued, on toward her office . 

When nearing the back of the large plant, one of her employees caught up with her and motioned toward her skirt. In horror Deb looked down to realize that her skirt had worked back up when stretching across her car. And it was stuck there, around her waist.  She had walked across the parking lot, through the front office area, and most of the way through the plant with literally no skirt showing. 

"Humiliation" is a mild word to use to describe Deb's embarrassment that day. You would think, as much as she dealt with it that they would be old friends. But life doesn't happen that way. 

Later when Deb met her boss he had a large grin on his face, she asked him, "Why didn't you tell me?" To which he replied, "I thought you knew."