Embarassing Moments

I have had many of these moments but these two stand out. Our high school was going to play Emporia and they decided we could go by train. We went to the Santa Fe railroad station in Topeka and loaded up. I think there were six cars of us. Everything went fine. I'm not sure about who won the game but everything was fun. On the way back I had a problem. Elastic had gone with the war effort. I'm not sure what they used elastic for but you could not buy it. My underwear had buttons on them. It was a hot day and my button came off but it was so hot my underwear stuck to me and I made it home. The other time was when my mother and I went to San Diego for the birth of my sister's second child. I had to go back without my mother as I was starting to teach school and she had to wait for the birth. I had a Pullman bed and as we approached a station in Texas I decided to go to bed. We were out in the country so I did not pull down my blind. I was well into my undressing when I heard a cough. I looked out the window and a troop train was beside me with many eyes watching my undressing. I got the curtain down and was grateful for the kind soldier that coughed.