Mum: (whispering to my sister) "I thought she'd lost more weight than that."
Me: "Uh, I can HEAR you! And THANKS!"
***
Mum: "I don't like your shirt."
Me: "Oh, I'm sorry...do you like my pants?"
(A beat)
Me: "Sorry Mum. That was just me turning the other cheek."
***
Grandpa of sister's boyfriend (to whom I'd just been introduced): "Wow, you're much bigger than Angie, aren't you?"
(Note: my sister is an absolute waif, the pudding-like proof being that her personal trainer has told her it is impossible
for her to get any skinnier. That and she's tiny, while I am rather tall.)
Angie: (trying to be sublty comforting) "Yeah, we are quite different."
Others in the room: "Mmmm, mmmmm, you don't look much alike, no, mmmmm..."
Angie: "And I am sitting on a chair!"
(Note: I was standing up.)
Me: "Yeah...and I am exhaling."
***
Honestly, it's enough to make you want to:
a) stick your fingers down your throat while singing "The Candyman Can";
b) gate-crash an aerobics class, take over the microphone and spend the entire session visibly bingeing on turkish delight; or
c) dwell on those beautiful words of rainbow fizziness, uttered this very afternoon by grandma's downstairs neighbour (complete with a thick German accent): "My dear look at you...you finally got your figure back!"
Wunderbar.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
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3 comments:
yeh, i was gonna say u looked a lil svelte myself, but i figured that was just latent stress at being in the vicinity of sooo many americans.
yr gorgeous, luv.
Thank you Leon: why, oh why, must you be an entire ocean away?!?!?!
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