PONDEROSA, ON – Nudist colony parents of 15-year-old Francis Nickelby are struggling to cope with their teenage son’s rebellious behaviour, which involves wearing clothes.
“It started about a year ago,” said Francis’s mother, Mandy Nickelby. “I was cleaning his room one day and found a pair of bicycle shorts and a Sears Fall fashion catalogue under his mattress.”
“We confronted him about it immediately, but he said that they weren’t his and that he was just holding them for a friend,” said his father, James Nickleby.
Earlier last week, Francis, along with four of his classmates, were caught by their high school principal trying on concealing sweater vests and turtlenecks behind the school. The kids were automatically suspended for three weeks under the school’s new zero-clothing-tolerance policy.
“We’re really ashamed,” Mrs. Nickleby added. “My friends at the nudist book club barely even talk to me anymore. Honestly, I wish Francis would just be doing drugs instead. At least that I could understand.”
