"I'm getting vanilla. I don't see how you can stand chocolate!"
"Well, I love it, and it contains powerful antioxidants!" I smiled at the clerk and paid for my one scoop of chocolate in a cup.
She made a face at my chocolate. "Antioxidants? Are you afraid you're going to rust?"
I could see that she thought her comment was funny. I glanced at her with a hint of amusement in my eyes. "Maybe your joints wouldn't be so stiff if you'd eat chocolate."
She scrunched up her face. "No, thanks! I much prefer vanilla laced with Advil."
"Let's walk to Macy*s while we eat."
"Okay." She took one glorious lick from the triple scoop vanilla ice cream cone, and then the whole thing just toppled to the floor. "Well, I wasn't really hungry anyway. And you shouldn't be eating ice cream either if you ever expect to lose that weight."
Her comment really pissed me off. She was a skinny blonde bitch with an adolescent waistline. Her rib cage had never been permanently stretched out by a growing fetus. I looked at her with a mixture of pity and anger. I would take my child and my slightly larger waist any day over her tiny waist. That is when I decided that she was just too vanilla for me. Next time, I'd ask Helen to go shopping with me. She loves chocolate!
Love this exchange! The antioxidants reference is very random but so true... I know I justify my love for dark chocolate because its big in the health community right now for having a lot of antioxidants.
ReplyDelete"I could see that she thought her comment was funny" - don't we all have at least one friend that says stupid shit...and we have to pause for a second and ask ourselves why we are friends with that person? This character is that girl...
then declaring that she is just too vanilla is a perfect way to wrap up the exchange.
Great work, IMHO I think you nailed this exercise.