Who wears short shorts?

There was a teeny-bopper song with this title back in the 60s. It was cute and fun, but not a motivation for just anyone to don short shorts (or even longer shorts) and yet today, here in YC, with the temps at 100 in a string of high 90s and 100s weather, the answer to this song's title is "just about everyone" and, well, this just shouldn't be...nope. Not everyone's derriere and/or legs lend themselves to revealing the gams. Matter of fact, because of modesty, concern for the welfare of others--especially the elderly or impressionable children--most people shouldn't be singing a response of "I do!" ever, EVER, EVER, EVER. Cute little kids can get away with shorts, although most clothing manufacturers seem to think small children have thighs the size of our governor, (Arnold "Caleeforneeya" Schwarznegger) and so they create the kidlet shorts with gargantuan legs making even the cutest ringleted toddler look like he or she is about to experience "lift off" with all the air ballooning around inside the pant legs (or is that shorts legs). And the pant or shorts legs are also very long. A child wearing said shorts appears to have only a thigh and an ankle and nothing in between. It's kind of a "Wizard of Oz" munchkin look without the 5 o'clock shadows on the "boys".

Hopefully our weather will cool down in the next week or two, and those of us who are faint of heart at the site of the chubby, the cellulite-challenged and the saddle-bag hipped shorts wearers will once again be able to be out and about and not have to reach for the smelling salts when an escapee from the fashion police crosses our path wearing too little over too much.