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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/TransitionDry2148 on 2026-03-20 23:57:51+00:00.
This happened when I was fifteen years old (F and I’m 40 now). My mom and I were shopping at Walmart. We stopped by the underwear section to buy my dad some replacement tidy whiteys. I picked up some 3 XL underwear, and held them up. They were obviously, like, comically too big for my dad. Trying to be a smart aleck, I looked at my mother and said, “Hey mom. Do you think these would fit dad?” My mom simply looked at me with a very serious expression on her face. “Now honey,” she said, “Something about your dad: he’s not that big down there.”
You can imagine the look on my face. I blushed so hard I could feel the heat in my ears and cheeks. I almost dropped the other underwear. “What?” Mom asked. The shockingly innocent ignorance of my joke in that one word. I shook my head and cried, “MOM!” She and I stared at each other for a good while longer before it finally sunk in what I thought she meant. “THE BACK NOT THE FRONT!!!” she replied. Yep. That was kind of traumatizing. What fifteen year old wants to hear about her father’s equipment?
TL;DR: My joke went right over my mother’s head while we were picking up new underwear for my dad and she made it sound like she was divulging on the size of my dad’s manly bits.