It's been a while since my last post. Been pretty boring lately until a few nights ago...
My girlfriend just started an internship at a local hospital. It's been pretty uneventful from what she's told me. Just doing paperwork most of the day. She's made a lot of friends though and in the short time she's been there we've already hung out with her coworkers after work and gotten to know them a bit. I don't really talk to them but I did befriend one or two on facebook.
So, I got a facebook message from one of them a couple nights ago with the subject "can't wait until halloween". I thought it was some stupid chain letter or something but I opened it anyway. Inside the message read "Did you try on your costume yet?".
This was weird, Halloween is months away and it didn't seem like much of a chain letter so I began to write back when I noticed she was online in the chat. So I started chatting instead. I saved the conversation and cut and pasted most of it below.
Me: Hi
Nina: hello there
Me: Did you send me a message?
Nina: yea
Nina: so how is it?
Me: How is what? I'm not sure if you meant to message me?
Nina: the straightjacket
Nina: did you try it on?
Me: What?
Nina: crap. maybe it was a surprise please pretend i didn't say anything

Me: ok, but can you tell me more?
Nina: I didn't know it was a surprise
Nina: [your girlfriend] won a straightjacket
Nina: well she bought one
Me: huh?
Nina: the hospital was doing a lost and found auction for stuff that people left behind and never came back for
Me: And there was a straitjacket in the lost and found? LOL!
Nina: yea! Everyone loved that it was in there, def the weirdest thing in there. {your girlfriend] really wanted it. she said that you had been looking for one for a halloween costume. we let her win it
Me: Oh yeah. We have joked about it before as a halloween costume. LOL Never thought she'd be able to get one I'm really thinking: We've never talked about it, and how the heck can they let an intern buy one of these things?
Nina: yea it's not something you can buy at a store. the only reason this was there was because it was left behind after being damaged.
Me: damaged?
Nina: yea it has a small cut on the front, must have been packed away in the box and someone cut into it with a razor blade. the hospital can't use them anymore when they've been damaged, so it was going to be thrown out when our boss said let's auction it off.
Me: she must have looked funny carrying that out of the hospital!
Nina: ROFL!!! I found her a DSW bag we had laying around to put it in, we should have made her walk out with it LOL!
We then went on to agree not to tell my girlfriend that I knew about it since it was obviously meant to be a surprise.
I thought it was weird that my girlfriend hadn't said anything about it yet, but the last few times we've played tie up games she's lost, so I wouldn't be surprised if she tried to spring something like a straitjacket on me to win.
Earlier today I looked around our place and found it in the bag, while my girlfriend was at work. It's a "Posey" brand jacket. Has a green stripe around the neck which from what the sizing chart on the bottom of the jacket says means it's a medium. I saw the slit cut, it's hardly anything, and doubt it would help in an escape.
Has anyone ever been put in one of these things? How hard are these things to get out of? Is there an easy way or am I completely screwed when she uses it? I searched on youtube and saw a bunch of people getting out of them, but none of them had the front canvas strap that holds the arms down that this one has. The people were all pulling their arms over their heads, that's not gonna happen if she puts my arms through the strap.

Let me know what you think I should do, and I'll post an update once something happens!
//stan\\