Carol.
You have met me. I am a large woman.
Last week Kendall and Jacqui hosted a dinner party at their home with KT and her sister as well as Becca, Kendall's daughter.
Jacqui needed to share the leftovers. They were headed down to the Getaway and it was either share or throw them away.
Honest - this is going somewhere.
I got up and started rummaging through a closet looking for plastic storage bags. Jacqui is saying HEFTY! HEFTY! (the brand name). Becca says "That's not nice" as I turn to Jacqui and say "You bitch!" Maybe you had to be there but it was very funny. The joke was on me -I am HEFTY! But no one was ridiculing my weight. Everyone was laughing though. Sometimes the joke is on you and you have to accept it or miss out on the fun.
The Australian joke is really on the parents who fall into the various categories. Some really do and the teachers have to deal with them. Imagine the parent who insists that her son missed 32 days of classes because he has an ingrown toenail. That's the religious balmpot.Teachers have to deal with this stuff everyday. I had a neighbor whose son vandalized our property daily. We finally took videos of his antics to prove to his mother it was him. Her response? There is another boy in the neighborhood who looks just like my son and everyone confuses them. His picture in his clothes and she still protected him. Teachers go nuts with this kind of crap.

No one was trying to trap you into making a fool of yourself. Honest - no thought anyone would take it seriously.

We are a ridiculous lot. The whole world sneers at us - a bunch of over the hill folkies with their hand covering one ear while the other strums a banjo. We argue over the earliest instance of Barbara Allan and the true meaning of Ring Around The Rosie.

Enbrace your silly side. Laugh out loud at whatever you find funny. Or at least allow others to without tking offece,

SINS the Hefty