Over the years I have had many injuries and painful situations, BUT the very worst may be the “Chap in the Trap!” You know that lint trap (I guess that is what it is for) at the top of your crack in the rear. Seems the thing is that in moderately cold weather sweat runs down the trough to the trap. The salty solution pools possibly due to the aforementioned lint and stays in the trap. Once there, it is air dried by cold air and gets the chap. You may not know it is there until the swim the next morning, but the wake up call when you hit the pool stings like Holy Toledo! Then it takes several days of special chap lotion to cool the sting…of course the swims go on as planned. I don’t remember this from the younger days so I wonder in the chap in the trap is a sign of aging.
Accusations will get you no where! I’m here…been here a long time and am not going away any time soon; however, thankfully the same cannot be said of the chap which is well on the road (pun) to full recovery.
C’mon, you all have got to be kidding – you never had the chap!? You go tooling around for a sweet 60 mile ride on a blustery January day, aero the whole way with the head down and the bum up, and no one else gets the trap chap?! Either you don’t go hard enough, don’t go long enough, or you have some secret you’re not sharing.
By the way, thanks for the Venus Fly Trap photo. I assume you know that here in NC we actually have them growing in the wild – one of the only places on Earth, and quite the attraction for the kids. In fact, there was a big case here a few years back where Venus Fly Trap poachers were caught in a conspiracy ring with the ill gotten booty confiscated before the poachers could get them back to the back market in Northern Europe.
Please don’t confuse the Fly Trap with the lint trap……they are completely different subjects, although none the less serious, at least to me. And for the “booty,” the trap is actually a little higher, but the chap is certainly ill gotten.
I would appreciate serious responses from either fellow commiserates, or an appropriate solution.
Oh QR Girl, ye of such little experience in tender matters such as these. You see, that is part of the difficulty with this particular malady….seems you can regularly use precaution and yet in an innocent moment with bit of haste in rushing out the door into the unexpectedly blustery conditions, with the wind just right, you sweat at one end while being bitten by the sneaky chap at the other (almost).
In these most difficult of times along with the precarious position of the dreaded chap, it has been found that the application eucerin cream most comforting. Granted, prevention may be preferred to cure, but if precaution has been tossed (caught?) to the wind then cure is the answer.
I am still determining if this is age related, or possibly weighted…
