'OH MY GOD! I USED TO WORK WITH YOU ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO! THE ONE THING I REMEMBER ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU HAD THE SOFTEST ARMS IN THE WORLD! [Feels my arm] THEY'RE STILL REALLY SOFT! WELL DONE! YOU SHOULD MAKE MONEY OUT OF THOSE!'
In an evening of peculiar observations about my person, I was standing in the pub with Mrs G – both of us were wearing black, coincidentally both sporting a puffed sleeve, Mrs G with a small ruffle around the neckline of her top – and a man told us we looked like Elizabethan lesbians.
It displays a kind of creativity I admire in an unflattering personal comment.
4 comments:
Are you sure he was being unflattering? A lot of men fantasize about lesbians, so I've heard.
Gay men?
You do have very soft arms though. It's something I would remember about you, if it hadn't been replaced by all the other more interesting things to remember about you.
It's funny, because you'd think in your/our line of work, feeling of each other's arms wouldn't be a top priority, and yet everyone seems to have done it.
I think perhaps it was something to do with the nature of my job. People constantly felt they had to stroke or pat me consolingly over the state of the flatplan.
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