Another "medical" reason to wear kilts at work.

If aging isn't your issue, it will be.

Like many men I'm diagnosed with BPH Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy enlargement of the prostate gland from aging. Any time in front of the television will inform you of this condition.

I take one of the advertised medications and it helps...some...but not completely.

I work with another guy, older than me, with the same condition. We often meet up at the men's room during the day.

Last week we were talking and I brought up the subject. I noted that one of the problems I was having wearing pants at work now was that when I finished in the rest room I wasn't always sure that I was indeed finished. And sometimes, usually when I was in a hurry already, I found that I needed to somehow dry a bit of my pants before I left the rest room.

Boy did he identify with that. We talked about how embarrassing it was, even when no one else could see, and how we worried it might happen after we left the rest room, how to use paper towels to dry the spot, whether there was any residual evidence of a dry spot. The later is particularly important to me since I often am standing in front of groups for my work.

Then, I pointed out to him how I didn't have to worry about that back when I was allowed to wear kilts to work. Since I wore boxers with my kilts that was the first line of defense. But if I did have a bit of a small drip then the underapron concealed that fact from the public.

He seemed interested, though I doubt he'd ever wear a kilt. In addition to being a coworker now he was the man who was my supervisor before and carried the message that I'd no longer be allowed to wear kilts and he is acting director when the CEO is gone. Don't know if it will help my cause any.

But thinking about the conversation realized there are a lot of guys my age on the board who might also have BPH, its very common. Guess if they can talk about it on television we can talk about it on this board.

Hope I've been appropriate here and haven't offended anyone.

Ron