Wardrobe Malfunction

My oldest three children are very involved in Speech. For those not familiar there are several events to compete in. My kids tend to like the events that involve acting. This year Josh's events included DI (dramatic interpretation) and Duet (Duet Acting). In his DI he did a piece called "I am not Batman". He told the story of a little boy imagining he was batman and he could save his father, who is a janitor and also a drunk. His other event, Duet, is a pieced called The Threadmen" about two men stuck on an elevator together, one a psychiatrist (Josh), the other a man who has been evaluated by said psychiatrist and deemed insane, thus spending 3 years undergoing pychiatric evaluations....now the "crazy" one is in an elevator with the man who brought all this down on him......it's pretty intense! Now to explain a little about how a Speech meet works....Events start at a certain time....if you are double entered (entered in two events) you have to go to your first event....make sure you let the judge know you are double entered....and then after you perform you hurry to your next event to perform there. We parents follow our kids around....going to their events, which are held in classrooms. So, here we are at State (Imagine your sports team making it to the State competition...this is how exciting it is to make it to State!) Anyway, we went to the competition with David's parents (David is Josh's duet partner). David and Josh were both double entered so they decided to do their duet first and then run off to their other events. Each event was held in a different building at UNK (University of Nebraska Kearney). So they performed their duet and it was awesome! The ending is very intense....Josh is on the ground pleading for his life and crying....when it was over Josh stood up.....he was leaning over saying something....I thought he was saying "I broke my knee....I broke my knee".....what he was really saying was "I broke my pants....I broke my pants".....and boy did he! His pants were beyond broken.....there were many of us watching them. Davids parents, me and and Aaron, Tori, Mrs Broeker (his Speech coach), one of the Speech helpers and her parents....we were all trying to think of what to do....he still had to run over to perform his DI! Mrs Broeker had a sewing kit and a safety pin....Aaron worked some magic and with a couple stitches and a safety pin Josh was ready to perform his DI. He did an awesome job for someone who knew he was a couple stitches and a safety pin away from showing his world to everyone in the room! After he performed we took him to JCPenny and got him new pants. He and David went on to finals with their Duet and came in 5th place. He did not make it to finals with his DI but not for lack of trying....

The zipper broke and they ripped all the way around to his hiney....