A few months ago I was on a little rant and wrote this.
Well I just have one thing to add to that.
There is a woman at swim practice who also has 7 kids. Six girls and one boy. How she is surviving 6 girls, I have no idea.
Anyway, three of her daughters are on the swim team. Yesterday after she got them all ready for practice and out on deck, she left with one of her older, non-swim team daughters. As they were walking out through the locker room, they passed me.
The mom said to her daughter, “She’s one of the coaches. Did you know she has 7 kids too? Doesn’t she look great?”
Awwww, I thought to myself. That was nice of her.
Until she added, “for having 7 kids?”
Now was that really necessary?
After practice I was in the locker room changing. I had to get in the pool with this little girl during practice, so I had just taken a shower and was about to change.
Swim lessons had ended at the same time, and there were a couple other moms in there with their girls, getting them dressed.
In comes The Mom of Seven Kids.
And she randomly starts talking to one of the other moms in the locker room.
“That’s one of the coaches,” she says, pointing at me.
“She’s got 7 kids! Can you believe it?”
Come on lady! It’s bad enough that the locker room is the size of a small closet, and I have to change in front of the kids that I’m coaching.
Now I’ve got several moms staring at me too. All of the sudden, gravity seemed to have a much stronger pull than usual…
“Doesn’t she look great?”
Here we go again.
“I mean, for having 7 kids?”
Right, because I can’t just look great. Period.
So in light of this ongoing back-handed phenomena plaguing me, I think I’m going to start adding qualifiers to all of my compliments. I mean, why genuinely and sincerely compliment someone when you can be back-handed about it?
You look great! I mean… for a red head!
Wow! You look amazing… considering the fact that you’re a total asshole!
And for my fellow M.O.S.K.:
You really are nice… for being completely clueless.
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