This morning I had to return to the real world and get back to work at the “bank”. Of course, in all honesty, the bank can be a pretty cushy job at times, so my morning actually consisted of eating breakfast at one of my favorite breakfast restaurants with my co-worker Dee, while we strategized about the new year.
Dee’s daughter is the one who had the misfortune of babysitting Caroline the other night. Y’all can read about it here if you missed it. Anyway, Dee and I were catching up on what we did while on vacation and other miscellaneous things, when she says, “You know I’m so glad that K. babysat the other night because we’re going to the orthodontist this week and since she saw you she can’t quit talking about how horrible it would be to be an adult with braces. She just keeps telling me how terrible you look and can’t believe you had to get braces when you were old, so I’m hoping it will make her realize that she needs to do what the orthodontist tells her to do”.
How many insults are in that statement?
It was just the pick me up I needed to kick my New Year’s into gear.
Really, like a ray of sunshine.
In Dee’s defense, she had no clue what was coming out of her mouth and meant no harm. She falls into that category of people that talk so much that they’re bound to say something dumb on a fairly regular basis, so I honestly didn’t take it personally. In fact, I’ve been laughing about it all day.
How nice to be able to serve as a cautionary orthodontia horror tale for pre-teen girls.
And speaking of pre-teen girls, as I was leaving the restaurant I noticed a group of about five cute high school age girls eating a late breakfast on the patio of the restaurant. About that time a Suburban drove slowly through the parking lot and a woman rolled down her window and said “Hi Jessica!” to one of the girls and drove off.
The girls all looked at each other and I overheard one say “Omigosh, was that your MOM?” and the other girl shook her head in disbelief as she reluctantly said, “Yes”. One of the girls said “Oh my mom is always doing stuff like that and I just want to DIE”. As I walked to my car they all continued to commiserate about how “like totally embarrassing” that was and “why would she do that?”
Because like saying hi to your daughter is so wrong and can totally destroy their whole social image…much like adult orthodontia.