Anyone that has read my blog at any point in time knows that I am a complete and utter klutz. I am the girl that can sprint in high heels, but trips and falls in tennis shoes. In my quest to get a “video ho” body, I’ve been going to the gym every day this week. I decided to go today before work because my friend is having her party tonight. I even successful managed to practice my zils (finger cymbals for non-belly dance people) while walking on the treadmill. I put baby socks over them so that they don’t make the clinging noise.
I go and take a shower. Still good. I wear my flip flops because you read all the time about germs. What they don’t tell you is that those damned things are super slippery from all the water they absorb. I was walking and I totally ate it. Yup, flat on my back, laid out in all my nekkid glory because my towel came open. I’m lying there and I do what I do in klutzy situations: I laughed. This old nana comes walking by, looks down at me, and asks me did it hurt. I tell her no, I’m quite used to it. She says, “No, not that. The belly button ring. Did that hurt?” What? I’m splayed on the ground and *that’s* what you’re concerned about? Uh….okay.
I get up and go about my business. I’m sitting there in my towel brushing my hair and these girls are talking about me. I wasn’t paying attention at first, but I tune in just in time to hear one of them say…”obviously not real.” I assume they’re talking about my hair, which is hanging down halfway to my butt. Duh, I think, but then one of them says, “Well, I guess we know what Victoria’s secret was,” and the other one says, “Yes, that’s the wonder in Wonderbra. I didn’t even know they made strapless pump-up bras.” What? You think my boobs are fake? Pfffft. Puh-lease. If I was going to pay for fake boobies, they would be the size of Pamela Andersons. I’d have boobs so big they could be used as flotation devices during a plane crash. I don’t really know what the deal is with my boobs. It’s not like they’re huge or anything to just seriously write home and brag about.
They’re getting all their stuff and about to leave. I “accidentally” let my towel fall to my waist, exposing my girls in all their glory. They stare at them, obviously looking for the tell-tale marks that I’d got a lift or implants. I tell them, “The ’secret’ is called good genes. ‘Wonderful’ some would say.”
They, at least, had the good graces to look embarrassed as they scurried away.
State of the Union: Exasperated
Listening to: The Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice
Edited: August 18th, 2008