… would you go up to them and softly tell 'em if they were a complete stranger?
How about if they were a complete stranger and the opposite sex?
Thanks
Q
Hell yes, and I have before. It’s only polite!
Well I wish someone had done that for me today. I went to my orthopaedist with my shorts unzipped, then went out to eat after that.
Maybe no one was checking out my crotchal region?
Quasi
“Your flies are undone” is a wonderful ice-breaker.
I can’t even begin to calculate how many times I’ve used that line.
Well it depends. Is it a man or a woman? Is the toad still in the hole, so to speak?
I would drop a hint to anyone I saw with an open fly if at all possible.
In my younger days, we used to say “xyz”, meaning “check your zipper”, although I don’t know how “x” came to mean a check-mark?
But Chez?
“Flies”, plural, in the UK?
Or am I not getting the joke?
(Sorry! I’m a bit slow on the uptake at times!:))
Q
:D:D:D:D
I have NEVER heard that expression!
Quasi
There may be regional variations regarding ‘fly’ versus ‘flies’, but I always use the latter.
Which is maybe why my ice-breaker doesn’t always break the ice.
If a verbal alert is not possible without drawing undue attention, I have discreetly passed a quick note to those in need (either sex)
I always believed it to be from “Examine Your Zipper”. “XYZ, PDQ!”
I think you are correct, gigi! Makes more sense that way.
Q
In the 80s when people were still wearing short shorts, there was a guy enjoying our local arts festival whose penis peeked out of the bottom of his shorts.
My friend started laughing and pointed it out. I started laughing and asked if we should alert said man. My friend(guy) was like “I’m not telling him. You tell him.” I(guy) responded with “I’m not gonna tell him”. There was no Mikey. He went unalerted.
Today we would call this a dick slip.
Back when I was in the 7th grade (that would have been 1963, or therabouts) I played elementary school basketball, and yep, we wore short shorts then.
Anyway, my principal took me aside and showed me what a jock strap was.
I guess those things existed in Germany (where I was born and lived till age 11), but somehow I musta missed it in the transition and became a young “dick-slipper”!
Quasi
Not an open zipper, but a similar story. I was doing a job at American Embassy Tunis and somehow managed to be invited to an open house at the Ambassador’s residence (a beautiful place, by the way). Mrs. Ambassador swept into the room and started flitting about greeting people. Problem was, her blouse was buttoned at the top and tucked in at the bottom, but the rest was open. Not a big deal view-wise, but she’s - you know- the Ambassador’s wife. Apparently, everyone was afraid to say something to her, so I (as the absolutely lowest carving on the totem pole) walked up and said, “excuse me ma’am, may I have a word with you?” She was very grateful.
Somebody that just enters the area gets a private heads up.
Somebody that’s been giving a speech on stage and is just leaving I say nothing. It’s best that they can hope it happened somewhere besides on stage.
Somebody that’s obnoxious gets no warning unless they are coming off stage after giving a speech.
I’ve told all kinds of people about all kinds of embarrassing stuff, so why exactly don’t I get it back in karma? I don’t know how long I went with my skirt tucked into my underwear at work once and NOBODY SAID A THING. Not strangers, coworkers! (And homeless guys! Although, I have to admit, they could have been trying to get my attention and I figured they were just harassing me again and ignored them.)
Ah yes the woman leaving the restroom with toilet paper trailing out from under the skirt. That’s always a good one. Note I’m not talking about toilet paper stuck to the shoe.
I’d tell him/her quietly.
I once overheard my 2-year old brother (20 and a half years younger than I am) telling my new husband: “Hey, ton magasin est ouvert!” That’s when I learned that “Your store is open” was a code for “your fly is unzipped” in my part of the world. Guess it had never arisen as an issue in my life till then.
Your barn door’s open.
or
Your cows are getting out.
or
Your sheep are getting out.