flight suit zipper; towel; gender anonymity

I was going to the bathroom today and I was zipping up my flightsuit afterwards and I suddenly realized that it was the first time I had worn that flightsuit. The zippers on new flightsuits often catch, because they are made of metal and the edges haven't been worn in, like a new key. You have to run the zipper a couple of times to make it run smoothly. This is a little embarrassing the first time if you are wearing it, because you have to stand there struggling to get the zipper down, looking like you don't know how to control your own pants. (Fortunately, I was alone in the cadillac.) (Also, for those of you wondering why I would struggle to get a zipper down, the flightsuit has a full length zipper running from crotch to neck that opens at both ends, so when you go to pee, you pull the bottom zipper up to open your fly and down to close it again.)

I got some new desert flightsuits from my old squadron two years ago after my last deployment. The desert ones can be hard to come by, so I grabbed a few when our resource advisor had some cash to spare. I felt a little guilty about it at the time, since I was planning on that being my last deployment. The Air Force, of course, had other plans for me (or maybe it was karma for getting some gear I didn't think I would need). So despite having it for two years, today was the first time I had worn this particular flightsuit.

In other embarrassing bathroom stories (and this one is literally bare ass), I recently forgot to bring my towel with me to the shower in the morning (2200L for me). I didn't realize this until I was already done with my shower, of course, so I had to dry off with the only dry piece of cloth with me, the scrub pants I sleep in. The rest of my PT gear would be useless for this purpose, being made completely of nylon.

On gender anonymity. Given the ratio of women to men in the Air Force (~1:6), I will occasionally use a male pronoun falsely when telling a story about female friend if I am trying to hide her identity, because to even say "she" puts her in such a sparse demographic that it would be easy to figure out who she is.

Okay enough for me today, can barely keep my eyes open. Can't wait to find the spelling and grammar errors I've probably missed in this entry.