Last night, laying in bed beside my husband, I was fondly and thoughtfully stroking his chin hairs, when I observed that the hairs growing closest to his lip were very white.
“Blonde,” he informed me, but I was gazing at his lower lip, already disinterested in chin hairs. I stuck my bottom lip out while observing his.
“Your lip doesn’t dip in like mine,” I say, touching my own bottom lip and feeling the chin under it slip sharply away. I have no chin.
“Your lips are plumper than mine,” he explains, but already, I have moved up, and am observing the area just beneath his nose.
“Yours is different than mine,” I say, touching the indent above my top lip. My husband giggles. “Yes,” he says, yours is smaller and deeper."
“Yours is wider,” I say. As I am pondering this, my husband uses the opportunity to say something, and perhaps keep me tied to one thought for more than two seconds: “What is that called, anyway?”
I shrug. “I knew once,” I thought aloud. “Now I call it a ‘nose ditch’.”
This makes him laugh. But I am lost in thought, trying to remember what that little trench is called. Finally, I burst out, excitedly, “Perineum!”
My husband looks at me quizzically. I frown. “No, wait,” I say, eyes widening. “That’s down by your bag!”
My husband is suddenly sitting up, overcome by great, gasping gales of laughter. “BAG?!” he asks. “BAG?! Where did you get that one?”
Suddenly, I realised: I hadn’t used that term since elementary school. I also hadn’t heard it since elementary school. This tickled the hell out of me and I began laughing, too.
There are a million other terms for it, some related to bag: sac, ballsack, nutbag, etc. But just bag, I haven’t heard or used that since I was too young to know what the hell it even was.
Did anyone else used to call it that? Does anyone still call it that? Does anyone still use terms they learned in elementary school, or remember how they used to refer to certain things?
Ah, well. Bag. It made for an amusing night.