This totally cracked me up.

[spacebug]

So, last night at practice, a lot of gear and orders and stuff came in. I left with my new set of outdoor wheels, several members of our team bought shiny silver cheerleading undershorts for our uniforms that we brought home, and I bought a teeshirt to wear in the marathon this weekend since our practice shirts aren't done yet. Because there weren't enough girls present for us to bout all the other teams, our team (who had the most) broke off and bouted each other instead on the second track. I was paying for my gear while the rest of my team convened on the other side of the rink.

When I got over there, I saw about three quarters of the girls with shiny silver underpants on their helmets. I thought this was really funny in and of itself. Then I realized that, since we hadn't planned on bouting one another, we hadn't brought different colored shirts- we were all red. So our teams last night were the underpantsheads vs. the non-underpantsheads. I have to say, derby girls just tend to look less intimidating with sparkly underwear on their helmets. Until Sayonara Pussy totally wails on you, causing you to nearly careen into a pillar, that is. *cough* I wouldn't know anything about that.