Tuesday Coat Tale

In the middle of April, Dad decided it was time to by a new windbreaker (coat) and Topsider casual shoes..  

This is a big DEAL.

Dad HATES to shop for himself. 

 Mom was elated. They walk at the mall every day so after their walk they only had to wait a few minutes for the stores to open at 10 a.m.  When Dad shops, he likes one stop shopping at Belk men's store.  At 10:25 (really) a.m. they were walking out of the store with this new coat and a pair of shoes. No photo of the shoes because this is a coat tale. Dad's old coat was navy and the fabric of the coat was weird it stole my furs right out of the air.  This one is is water resistant, the fabric does not steal my furs.  

Win Win

Fast forward a few days...it was chilly, dreary and raining.   Mom was in the kitchen pouring their coffee. Dad came into the kitchen said to mom:

I think I'll wear my new coat today.

 Mom turned to look at him and said

YOU CAN'T WEAR THAT COAT..

DAD BELLOWED WHY NOT....

MOM SAID BECAUSE IT IS MINE

Dad looked down to see that he did, in fact, have on Mom's coat

 which (on her) is an ankle length rain coat.  By this time mom 

was falling on the floor LOLing she laughed so hard her sides hurt and her face muscles hurt
 Dad was NOT doing any of this.

Mom's coat sleeves were too short...it was too tight in the chest  Unfortunately I missed the entire event.  But I am  told it looked so funny on Dad.  Dad is 5'11" Mom is 5' 4" on a good hair day.

Mom was asking all kinds of questions and saying all kinds of stuff like thank goodness I was home you would have worn that outside.  Didn't it feel too small....mom was laughing so hard she had tears rolling down her face and her nose started running 

OMCs  she was a WET MESS.    Mom told dad next time he did something like that to give her some notice because the look on his face was P R I C E L E SS when he realized it was her coat!!

We wanted to share this hilarious story earlier but every time mom thought about it she started to cackle.  Mom said she would never in all her years be able to UN SEE Dad in her coat.
Then it got even funnier when Dad admitted that he was wondering why it was so small feeling..Mom asked if he didn't wonder about the length?

Mom LOL'd so much it was contagious then Dad started LOLing at Mom.   To this day when they think about the sight they LOL!!

She has been trying to get him to put her coat back on so he could see how funny he looked but he WON'T.  

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This is the coat closet.  The coat on the left is mom's old coat

(same color and fabric) the coat on the right is Dad's new coat.)

This photo is a slight reenactment taken on 5/23. 

Mom isn't sure if they were beside each other on the Misfit day!
Their coats could be twinS!!

As I said it was dark and dreary and evidently dad did not

turn on the foyer light when he got the coat out of the closet 

for now mom has moved her coat to another closet.  

One day we might have a do over...AND I sure hope I see it!!

Thanks Dad for making mom LOL.
FYI
I bet she looked as weird doing all that snorting of Squirrel $not,  gasping for breath and holding her tummy as you did in the coat!!