About a week after Christmas, American Eagle sent an e-mail that said something like, “You just scored a free pair of jeans.” I immediately deleted the e-mail, because that’s what I do to crap liar messages. Early last week I received another e-mail from them that grabbed me by the shoulders and yelled, “Hey! Your free jeans thing is about to expire!”
I decided to call their bluff.
I went over to the website and spent around four minutes browsing through the jeans. I decided to go with the 90s Boyfriend Jeans, because I’m a bit of a dope for the music I listened to in the 90s and the clothes I wore in the 90s and a lot of the experiences I had in the 90s. I then decided to NOT go with the size I currently wear, but the size I WANT to wear. (We all have our problems, don’t we?) I put the jeans in my cart, and I was surprised to NOT receive any sort of pop-up saying “Nice work! You’re only $250 away from your free jeans!”
Over to the check-out info. I signed in and entered my address and flipped it over to the payment info where I kept waiting for the ball to drop, but it didn’t drop. This paragraph is boring, the jeans were free, and the shipping cost was $0.01.
Three days later the free jeans arrived. They did not fit, which is exactly what I expected. When I tried them on and buttoned the BUTTON FLY, my spaghetti octopus of intestines had nowhere to go, so it sucked itself INTO itself (imagine that!) and suddenly my rectum popped out of my left ear.
A few days later, I tried the jeans on right after I got out of bed (when my intestines are the least convoluted), and that’s when I took this photo.
My goal is to wear the jeans comfortably (with my rectum right where it needs to be) on my 50th birthday. I have 104 days to get my shit together. Figuratively. (Also, maybe literally.)
A very do-able goal. And for button-fly jeans you WILL achieve this!!!
I’ll never be able to purge the image of a rectum popping out of your ear. Thanks for that.
Laughed out loud and I’ve been there. In fact, I’m still there.
“suddenly my rectum popped out of my left ear” 8-| I laughed so hard that I’m pretty sure I’ll be smiling all day.
#GOALJEANS. I like this concept very much! Also, ‘My rectum is right where it needs to be’ would make a great tagline, just saying.
“My spaghetti octopus of intestines” – hahaha. I feel you. Here is my “secret.” There is one style of Old Navy high waist skinny jeans I love and I have them in every single color, with about 3 each of dark blue and black. When you find yours – BUY THEM ALL.
Score! Never heard of such a great deal. They’re free so why not go for the goal, and you’ve already buttoned them once. A lot can happen in 104 days;)
You are super photogenic!