At first, I thought someone had recognised me from my weekly column in The New Paper on Sunday, which is accompanied by a regrettable photo of myself.
Yes, I look like a human poodle, but how can you tell from the photo that I’m a sex pervert? Is it the caveman hair or the leery grin?
And then I thought, wait a minute, do I look so old in the photo that I’m an “uncle”? To me, that was even more hurtful than being called a sex pervert.
And then I realised the graffiti wasn’t a warning about someone who worked at The New Paper, but someone who was reported in The New Paper.
To my relief, I might not be the “sex pervert uncle” after all.
That is, until I went jogging one morning.
You see, I’m a rather lazy person. So instead of changing into a proper pair of sports shorts, I simply went jogging in my black boxer shorts and a T-shirt I had slept in. I had done this a few times before without incident.
I figured, why add to the laundry my wife had to do? Save the planet and all that.
Yes, basically I went jogging in my underwear, but it wasn’t like they were thongs or briefs. They were long, baggy Goldlion boxers that hid everything that needed to be hidden.
The trouble was that these boxers also came with a button fly.
So I was happily running around my neighbourhood, listening to my iPod and going past a number of schoolgirls when I happened to look down and to my horror, saw that my little penis had somehow slipped out through the gap in the button fly, swinging freely as I jogged.
WARDROBE MALFUNCTION! WARDROBE MALFUNCTION!
No wonder I felt so cool down there.
For how long I was indecently exposing myself, I don't know, but I quickly put the bird back in the cage while I kept jogging.
I tried to remember the schoolgirls I had run past. What were the expressions on their faces? Were they looking at my crotch area?
Were they going to report me to the police? “It’s that sex pervert uncle in New Paper!” they would say.
When I reached home, I immediately told my wife, who surprisingly didn’t seem all that concerned about it. Her reasoning? My penis was so small that most likely no one noticed anyway
But in case anyone did notice, I hereby apologise to the residents of Choa Chu Kang for my shortcomings.
I really don't want to be the "uncle", sex pervert or otherwise.
- Published in The New Paper, 30 November 2008
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