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A typical Friday night for the wife and I after our youngest left for college would be to order dinner, share 1-2 bottles of wine, have some desert, and watch a movie while snuggling together on the couch. This became a common routine for us in as new empty-nesters. We were doing so one night. The movie ended sometime after midnight. I went upstairs to bed. My wife will always clean the kitchen before she goes to sleep. As I'm dozing off I hear a scream from my wife as if something startled her.

I was laying there trying to decide if I should get up and check on her when I hear her running up the stairs. At the same time I hear some voices and laughter going on downstairs. When my wife gets up to the bedroom she is frantic and nervously explaining to me that our college-age son is home unexpected and has a few of his friends are with him.

He goes to college about an hour away and him showing up at home unannounced wasn't something new, but doing so with his friends at 1 am was. He had driven back to meet up with his friends from highschool for a gathering at a bar. Afterwards they decided to come stay at our house for old time sake.

The embarrassing part of this was that when you enter our house through the garage there a mini-mud room and straight ahead is the kitchen sink. The sink area is the first thing you see when you walk through the door. And there for all the guys to see when they walked in was my 55-year-old wife's backside in underwear and a small t-shirt that covered up nothing below the waistline. She wasn't wearing thong underwear, but she wasn't wearing granny panties either. Something in between and ample cheekage on display as this type of underwear is the type of material that crawls up my wife's bubble butt very easily.

I guess she didn't even hear them enter right away so the glimpse lasted several seconds at least. Then my wife had to run through the kitchen and up the stairs – all in view of where the guys were probably standing at this point.

I had to go down there and smooth everything out. My son was bothered by it for a while. My wife was super embarrassed about it when it happened. But everyone's gotten over it and it's a story we all laugh about now. Even my kid's friends were cool and respectful about it. But I tease my wife and tell her that it's a visual that none of them will ever forget.

Our sons always call before they come over now.