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WotD: Caught short
Here’s one we can all understand.
Every one of us has been caught short at one time or another in our lives.
When someone says they were caught short, they mean they suddenly had to use the bathroom, but there was no bathroom nearby.
There’s nothing worse than not being able to find a toilet when you need one.
In the British and eastern Canadian sense of the term, that’s what it means to be caught short.
I’m sure everyone has a funny story or two of enjoying a family day out when suddenly there is an emergency.
Someone has to go, but there is nowhere to do their business.
The situation is often less embarrassing for boys than for girls simply because they have different equipment.
I remember a time when I was around ten years old.
Going grocery shopping was a family affair back then, so all seven of us piled into the car.
It was a 1977 canary yellow Ford Thunderbird, to be exact.
Then drove the 30km to the grocery store.
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The way out and the shopping went fine, but on the way back, disaster struck.
One of my little sisters was caught short.
Boys can whip it out and go anywhere, but girls need to sit to pee.
Here’s where dads earn their accolades.
My dad pulled over to the side of the road and held her in a sitting position so she could do her business.
We all understand that females do not have a high degree of accuracy in these situations.
Well, my sister proved that point by peeing all over my dad’s feet. Ha, ha, ha!
Perhaps your story of being caught short is not as disastrous as this one, but I’m sure you have one.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 80.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.