01-17-2005, 05:43 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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my latest dumbass move.
I sat across the table from my son’s little friend and his mom. The kid looked up at his mom and said, “I’m all full of pizza. There is no more room in my tummy.”
Teasing him, she replied, “Then I guess there’s no room in there for cake and ice cream.” The kid looked distraught. I chimed in, “Hey, way to go introducing bulimia at an early age.” She looked at me blankly for an uncomfortable space in time, then laughed politely. She got the joke, but I guess I wasn’t that funny. It happens. Later that evening, my wife took me aside. She told me that the gal I was joking with has a problem - she's bulimic. HOW COME NOBODY TELLS ME THESE THINGS BEFORE I OPEN MY MOUTH?!
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01-17-2005, 05:46 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Yikes. Sometimes there's just no way to know. Don't you wish we all had a rewind button that allowed us to go back to a certain place in time?
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01-17-2005, 06:14 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Ouch. I think it'd be safe to extra nice to her for a while. But like JumpinJesus said, there's no way you could've known. A girl who used to be a really good friend of mine was talking to me one day about dancers and how often they got eating disorders to stay in form. Not remembering that she herself used to be a dancer, I started joking about it... also not realizing that was her way of subtly telling me that she was bulimic and wanted me to help. She took a slightly less subtle route after that.
I don't really know what you can do to fix this situation, it doesn't really seem like a great idea to walk up to her and say that you didn't know she was bulimic and that you're sorry, since she didn't tell you she was. But since you couldn't've known, I wouldn't beat yourself up horribly over it. It seemed like a fairly witty comment at the moment. |
01-17-2005, 06:26 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Maybe it was a less-than-subtle nudge for her to pay closer attention to the way she handles food/reward behavior with her son. Agreed that it sucks to be the one to say stuff like that, but you may have done her a big favor in the long run.
Anyway, someone who's lived through a tragedy like that ought to have a sense of humor about it - otherwise they're just morose. And I speak from experience... |
01-17-2005, 11:05 PM | #13 (permalink) |
Natalie Portman is sexy.
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I'm sorry, but that is hilarious.
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01-17-2005, 11:08 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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I mean, haha!
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01-17-2005, 11:47 PM | #15 (permalink) |
Please touch this.
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Got it wrong, Suave.
Oh by the way... hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha
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01-18-2005, 12:19 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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Clavus, someone really ought to make a movie of your life.
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01-18-2005, 06:01 AM | #22 (permalink) |
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I'd laugh out loud at that if I didn't already have my foot in my mouth. It's usually stuck there most of the time.
I think my problem is that my mouth moves when I think. I have to work on that.
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01-18-2005, 06:42 AM | #24 (permalink) | |
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01-18-2005, 07:14 AM | #25 (permalink) | |
Filling the Void.
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01-18-2005, 08:12 AM | #26 (permalink) |
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do you wear socks???? because not wearing them makes it less fuzzy when inserting your foot into your mouth.
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01-18-2005, 10:02 AM | #29 (permalink) | |
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01-18-2005, 10:08 AM | #30 (permalink) | |
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01-18-2005, 11:02 AM | #32 (permalink) |
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Seriously buddy there is no way you could have known. She can't blame you for it. If she does she's not worth the effore being friendly to. We all have problems, we all deal with them. If she can't take it it's her problem.
There is just no way to please everybody.
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01-18-2005, 04:11 PM | #35 (permalink) | |
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01-18-2005, 04:28 PM | #36 (permalink) | |
smiling doesn't hurt anymore :)
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bloody. fucking. genius. you sir, get rat's Grade A+ Comedy Goldmine award, undisputed.
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01-19-2005, 05:15 PM | #40 (permalink) | |
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