Welcome to My World

By Still Life · Aug 22, 2008 · ·
  1. Conversation with my Sister in the car on the way to the Gas Lamp District:

    - I don’t care about people. I don’t care what they think, she says.
    - Okay, I say.

    The next five minutes trudges by peacefully. And then:

    - I like it when people say I’m pretty. That’s what I like, she says.
    - What…
    - But not if they point out I’m fat.
    - …are you trying to say?
    - That’s it. That’s all I’m trying to say.
    - That you don’t care about what people think just as long as they don’t think negatively about you?
    - Right.
    - So like, if I’m talking to you and I say, “You’re pretty”, but I leave out the “fat” part, you’d be okay with it? Is that it?

    She frowns.

    Our conversation ends there. She’s as thin as a rail anyway. I don’t know why she’s always harping about it. It runs in the family. People generally want to stuff me with food because of it, as if I'm a malnourished Martian. Sometimes when waitresses give me extra portions, I grab them by the wrist and say, " Excuse me. What's all this?"

    And all I'll get back is a seeping, swampy, all knowing smile.

    There was a scene in Ally Mcbeal that comes to mind.

    Woman in the elevator: " You look like you could use a cookie."

    Ally: "Great. Why don't weshare it?"

    Or something like that. But unfortunately, I never have clever quips for when I'm actually there.

    __

    This morning I wake up to find someone’s chicken-bone arm splayed beside me. I was frightened, so I try desperately to sweep it off the bed, only it rolls over and dangles mercilessly over the edge like a broken door-hinge, and I realize suddenly – morosely – that it was really my chicken-bone arm and not some stranger’s, and that I am very late for work.

Comments

  1. CDRW
    Dear Still Life's sister:

    .................what?....................?
  2. Shadow Dragon
    Well, I'm sure that that atleast woke you up pretty quickly. :p As for your sister, I think most girls that are skinny think that they are fat for some strange reason.
  3. soujiroseta
    ^^wat a curiosly accurate phenomenon...i jus dont get it.^^
  4. CDRW
    On a side note, how come no waitresses give me extra portions? I think that is very discriminating.
  5. Aurora_Black
    ^^ Seriously! I could use a little more steak anyday ^^
  6. Still Life
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