#140 - I know why Inee wore housecoats

I have to confess:  I like not having to wear clothes.  Not that I am suggesting I'm a nudist.  Or would EVER want to go to a nudist colony.  No way!

Let me take a step back and explain.  My dear grandma Inez was lovingly referred to always as Inee, part of the necessary one word spoken quickly and usually together: Inee and Papa Louie (nee Louis, but always said in the french tone, never LEWIS but always LOUIE).  Inee often wore housecoats and slippers around their small one bedroom apartment in the Near North Side Budlong Woods neighborhood of Chicago.  She was a retail clerk and got me my first job.  He was a bricklayer and tuckpointer, and after his blue collar workday was over, would come home and often sit around just in his one piece cream colored long johns.  Inee would change into her housecoat and slippers and I'm guessing neither one wore much of anything else underneath.

Well, we got a hot tub during the pandemic (didn't everyone?).  I fought getting one, but the hubby really wanted one for his muscle issues, and so I relented.  Wasn't even going to go look at them, saying "I'll probably not use it too often, so you choose."  He insisted I come along to make sure I would like it.

We lucked into getting a brand new one that was a canceled order (and so we didn't have to wait the requisite 15 weeks that orders were taking at that time).  It was installed within a month, and boy, I ate my words after that first week.  I LOVE that tub.  I probably use it more than he does. Usually at least two times a day.  Sometimes three times, and once in a while, maybe even four.  And we'll often pop in during the non-summer months when it's late afternoon and getting cooler out. We always go au naturale.  Unless we have guests and then we are "forced" to put on our bathing suits.  So when it's just us, yes, we're just in our birthday suits.

And after I get out, and put on my "spa robe" (yes, we bought 2 for us, and 2 for our "guests" when they come), and my spa slippers, well, I just don't want to put any real clothes on again.  Not until bedtime, and then sometimes, I'll just sleep in my robe.  It's liberating and I love not having to put on a bra, and just let it all air dry under there.

So, now I understand why Inee wore housecoats.