"You look green!"

The first full day I was in Florida for my quarterly visit to my sick mom and my dad I confirmed my thought that the reason I didn't get the rude comments that other people get about obesity, WLS, etc., is people in Virginia are extra thoughtful.  First my mom's friend said, You are so thin, I hardly recognize you and you look so SHORT.  How do you feel?  Short, I replied.  Then she said, don't lose anymore weight in your face or you will look old.  Next my friend of 34 years was highlighting my hair and asked how I felt, becasue she said I looked GREEN.  I told her I didn't feel green.  Next I went to see my BFF who I had seen the night before.  I asked if I looked OK, becasue Dana said I looked green.  She said why did you see Dana, you didn't need a cut and you are a natural blonde?  I thought you just blow dried your hair.  I told her it was nice to know that I just had a ninety dollar "*******"  I went back to my mom's and she said my hair was too light and oh BTW my nails were too long.  YIKES!

Things did look up.  LOL  Apparently, I was a bit swollen from my thigh lipo during my last visit and the last five pounds I have lost shows, because I got a lot of "you look awesome and you are even trimmer than last time" from folks.  Even mom.  Ha, Ha.

It sure is nice to be back in Virginia.  :)  Loris

ahhh - home sweet home - got to love it!

Oh, Lord, isn't it the truth?!  Doesn't Jeff Foxworthy do a routine on Southerners who say, "Bless your heart!" when what they really mean is " #&$*% you and the horse you rode in on!"     

Next time you go to Florida, feel free to tell everyone "Bless your heart!"

Virginians are lovely folks.  If they are going to talk ugly about you, at least they don't do it to your face!  

Kix
(lived in Alexandria VA for one year)

I lived in Richmond from '87-'93 and I agree.  At least to your face, they were the most polite people I've ever been around.  I'm a native of Wisconsin and also lived in NH for 5 years (don't get me going on New England etiquette - lol).

Did she happen to mention what shade of green?  Olive? Lime? Kelly?  It makes a difference

It must be Choctaw green, our high school color (kelly green.)  We were the Big Green Indians.  Choctawhatchee High.  You couldn't graduate until you could spell it.  LOL  Loris

My goodness!  I could not have tolerated all of that without being super crabby to people.  I admire your patience and tolerance with them.

With the bunch I hang around, I have just got to keep my sense of humor.  My dad knows I like my fancy purses.  Everytime someone came over, he would pick my expensive bright blue patent leather handbag off the dining room chair and say, aren't people clever?  Look what Loris made out of an old shower cutain.  Everyone answered, really?  And he would just laugh.  Loris

 

Dads can be funny sometimes.  In college (back in the 70s when eating sprouts was new and hip), I took my dad to Whole Earth, a natural foods cafe in Palo Alto (CA).  He ordered a tuna sandwich, and when it was brought to the table, he looked at it and said, "There's hay in my sandwich!"  He then called over the waitress and asked why they put hay in his sandwich.  He was joking, of course, but the waitress didn't know that and was gobsmacked.

I think I'd like your dad!  

Kix

Too funny.  Your dad reninds me of mine.  And what is with the waitress?  Some people have no sense of humor.   The purse story is really longer.  He follows up with Loris said she paid (he makes up a number) for he rpurse and I told her when she left the store did she feel the manager throwing her chnage after her?