A Pants 70th Birthday Party

Today we went to the 70th birthday lunch/ celebration for a very good friend of ours.

Nikonabike started diving 40 years ago, and I began 37 years ago (that’s how we met – he was my diving instructor). Our friend, Chris joined the diving club about a year after me.

It was great to catch up with many old diving buddies going back donkey’s years. Some unfortunately are no longer with us, but they were remembered too.

The party was held outdoors and they had put several marquees up in one of their fields. It did rain a little, but not enough to spoil the fun.

One chap there asked Chris’s wife to dig out some of his boxer shorts/pants without telling Chris, and without further ado (she knows them all too well!) she duly presented him with a large carrier bag full. Birthday Boy had been chatting to people in the house for a few minutes, and when he returned to the field, in order to blow out the candles on his cake, the divers were all lined up ready, wearing Chris’s pants, Superman style over their own trousers or shorts. He took the only action possible in the circumstances, and dropped his own trousers.

Birthday boy is the one in the centre, not wearing his pants on top. (There is another chap behind him too that's why he has hands on his waist!)

I’m sorry. I know it’s not your normal sort of behaviour for a 70th birthday party, but then most of them are not "normal sorts" in any case.