Who wears short shorts?

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I never gave this a lot of thought before, with the exception of being rather glad that my lovely daughters never wore really short shorts. I was forbidden to wear them--between having two aunts who were Catholic nuns, as well as two grandmothers who thought short shorts were completely unacceptable, I was taught they were not the thing to wear. A good friend of mine cares for her 93+year old mother, who has had Alzheimer's for a long time now. For the most part, the poor lady cannot even remember names, thinks her parents and grandparents are still alive, and lives in the past a lot, if she can remember anything at all. Taking care of her is very hard. And she comes up with some doozies! Friend called me this morning. For the last two solid days, her mother has demanded that someone needs to go in to her room and find her ''short shorts'' immediately as she wants to wear them. What's wrong with this picture? She never owned any short shorts, or wore them, either. She is nearly completely immobile, can't walk, in a wheelchair or in her bed. She has every complication of health problems and memory problems imaginable. Her husband died about 30 years ago. She was a college professor, and always dressed very conservatively, prim and proper. And she was throwing a fit for short-shorts. No one knows how she got this into her head, or why. Maybe she saw something on TV. My friend was at her wit's end with the short shorts thing, her Mom just wouldn't stop demanding them. She did something she said she had never done--she told her Mom that ''Dad would not want you wearing short shorts, you know that, Mother.'' Evidently that was what finally sunk in, so my friend is hoping the two days of her mother demanding and waiting for short shorts to appear is over. This made me think of our fellow mylotter @LooeyVille, and the things her MIL comes up with. Honestly, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad....evidently my friend's mother thinks she is a young woman and would look great in short shorts, or if you prefer to call them by some of their other names as well--Daisy Duke's, Hot Pants, Micro Shorts, etc. Of course, for many of us this reminds us of this idiotic song (if you can even call it a song) with the dumbest lyrics known to mankind.