"Hey Mum, just going out!"
"Oh, you're not staying for dinner?" Ursula frowned slightly.
Don shrugged. "Going to a party."
"Oooh, sound fun, will there be any girls there?"
Don shrugged again. "Yeah, probably?"
"Well, be safe!"
"Safe? I wouldn't worry, it's just going to be people we know, no out of control ragers or anything."
Ursula chuckled. "I was just teasing, hon. But make sure you're careful with any women, all right?"
Don frowned. "Uh, sure Mum?"
Ursula sighed. "You know what, never mind. With how slow you are to pick up what I'm saying, I'm sure I don't have anything to worry about with you and any woman."
A lightbulb finally clicked on for Don. "Ohhh!" He chuckled. "Mum! Didn't expect you to... all right no you don't have to worry, if there were any women, and I'm not saying there is, but if there were, she's clean."
Don turned to leave, but Ursula said, "Wait, 'she's clean'? That seemed very specific."
"Uh..."
"Never mind, it's your own business, but you know it's not just about diseases, right? If you go and get some young lady pregnant, you're helping her look after it. Or take care of it. Or whatever she decides to do."
"Oh, you don't have to worry about that, Mum. My buddy Randy told me what's up, we'll just have her on top, so gravity will do the work for us."
He turned to leave again, but... "Hold on a minute, buster."
"What?"
"'Gravity will'... is this what they're teaching you at school?"
"Nah, they just told us not to do it, so Randy gave me the lowdown."
Ursula sighed. "I can't believe my son is taking reproductive advice from someone who thinks you can use gravity as contraception. Buddy, you're not going out that door without a pack of condoms."
"But I don't have any!"
"Hold that thought!" Ursula got up, opened a nearby drawer, and picked up a roll of condoms. "Here you go. Don't spend them all in one place."
Don looked at them. "So what do...?"
Ursula sighed again. "Of course. How could I possibly expect you'd know what to do. Go fetch me a banana from the kitchen."
"Peeled, or unpeeled?"
Ursula raised an eyebrow. "I can't tell if that's a circumcision joke, or what - but unpeeled, I don't ever want to see someone attempt to put a condom on a peeled banana. Not again."
"Again?"
"Never mind. Go fetch me that banana." Don went away and came back with a banana. "Great," said Ursula. She tore off a condom wrapper, opened it and placed the condom over the banana. "See, it's simple." She unrolled it, pulling it over the banana and stretching it tight. "Nothing to it. Now you try."
She made Don practice a few times, until he had it down pat. "Great," he said, "so it's the same thing with... with the real thing?"
"Exactly the same," said Ursula.
"Doesn't it hurt or something?"
Ursula shook her head. "Well, the best way is to..." she paused. This was ridiculous. A step too far. But then, how far was too far to ensure he was making smart choices with the young ladies who he might encounter? She sighed again. "All right, I'll have to show you on the real thing. Take your clothes off."
Don's eyes widened. "Get naked, in front of my mum?"
She sighed. "I'm not having you go out there not knowing how to be safe, and then accidentally impregnating some woman, who, if her sexual education is anything like your own, probably thinks she can avoid pregnancy by doing stomach crunches."
"But..."
She sighed again. "Would it be less weird if I got naked too?"
Don frowned slightly. "If anything it would be more weird."
"But at least you wouldn't feel at a disadvantage."
"I suppose not."
"Excellent." Everything within Ursula screamed that this was a ridiculous idea, but she gritted her teeth and pulled her dress over her head. "Well, go on, get yours off too," she said.