NEXT!....NSV

NEXT!

NSV

Well, I've spent much of the last day grumping at myself for only loosing 0.8 pounds in 10 days...... If you were near me before late this afternoon, you would wish you were somewhere else.

But........

As it is FRICKIN COLD outside, I decided that I needed a new sweatshirt. In fact, a Bengals Hoodie. One that has the classic Borgman NEXT Cartoon on it.

So......

I was trying to find one, and was looking around like the non shopping male that I am when the kind sales lady asked if I needed help. Yup. I was looking for a 2X or a 3X in the lower right corner of the stacks. Big and Tall folks know to go to the bottom right corner whenever shopping. I've been going to the bottom right corner for 30+ years.

I tell the lady what I am looking for and the lady asks me "Is this shirt for someone?"

"Nope-just me"

"Well. why do you want a 2X or a 3X? Odds are you could get in an XL but the 2X would be a little longer."

"Huh? I always get a 2X, or often a 3X, that's what us BIG and TALL guys do."

"Gee Sir, YOU ARE MORE TALL THAN BIG. IF THE 2X IS LONG ENOUGH, I'D JUST GET THAT, THE X MIGHT BE TOO SHORT".

At this point I heard a little bell going off in my brain. THIS LADY DOES NOT THINK ME AS BIG AND TALL. SHE SEES ME AS TALL and also a little big.

This lady did not know me from Adam, but the adjective she uses as the most important IS TALL.

Wow. I felt like doing the Snoopy Happy Dance.

To some sales lady, I AM TALL. I just happen to be a little big to her. WOW. TALL. I am used to being BIG then TALL. Plain old Tall. "Odds are you need a 2X because it is longer." None of this, gee you need a 3X because you are so big. I was just a plain old customer that needed something a bit longer because I was tall.

OK, I'm Babbling now.

I call the Deaconess Dieticioness, I call Bubba. I tell my friends at dinner (while I am sitting IN A BOOTH! and BTW- am still not hungry FOUR HOURS LATER). I'M TALL!

So, there you go Mr. Scale. as the classic Cartoon on my new hoodie says to all those pounds....... NEXT!

And for all those of you who had to put up with me grumping and all those of you who pointed out that I had done some good things of late, despite a slowdown, THANKYAVERYMUCH for being a friend.

NEXT!