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Welcome to the storyCorp podcast, in this episode, a story from Betty Jenkins of * Ohio. She is 94 years old. As a young woman, she received a gift from her mother. It was meant to attract the attention of young men, but as Jenkins tells us the attention she got was not the kind she was expecting.
"I was very skinny and I didn't have any curves. I guess my mother got kind of worried, because she didn't think I had enough boyfriends. So she bought me a bra that you blow up. I was really excited so I blew and blew to about 32. I was quite happy with the goods. I got a few more quest-search. The persons at that age are very self conscious."
"That year, I took a trip to South America, I proceeded to fly to San Diego. Soonly, we were into the end Andes Mountains, and it turned out it's a nonpressurized plane. And I have felt very uncomfortable and things were getting very tight. This bra had started to increase in size. As the thing got bigger I tried to stand up and I couldn't see my feet. "
"The direction said it would grow to 48 if I wanted it to. I thought probable happened. It goes beyond 48. And I found out what happened. It blew out. As it blew out, it brought out the sound. And the co-pilot came into the cabin with a gun, wondering what had happened. The men all pointed to me. It's difficult to explain to people in English that the part of your anatomy just blew up. But I have tried to do it in Spanish. It's beyond hope. So they made a landing. I was taken off the plane and turned over to two women police. And they told me to strip founding for what they thought was the bomb. Finally I was stripped down and I showed them the hole in the bra. And they chuckled. And I thought oh my, they have got the point. And I was allowed back to my plane.
A month later, I got a bill from the airline for $400 for an unschedule stop.
Betty Jenkins at storycorps in Cincinnati. Major support for StoryCorps is provided by State Farm and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Our podcasts are supported by the Fetzer Institute as part of its campaign for loveandforgiveness. Learn more at loveandforgive.org. Our StoryCorps interviewed are housed at the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. And you can listen to storycorps on the radio Fridays on NPR's morning editon. For this StoryCorps podcast, I am Katie Saimen . Thanks for listening.