Re: Telling a tale on my ignorant friend.

That's how Doris Duke became anorexic. Husband #1 said she was too heavy ...
and she took it personally. Foolish child.


"kathycarp" <kathycarp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I hope she never marries him. What a miserable life, trying to keep a
>certain size to keep his "approval". <sigh>
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> Kathy
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>> Some of you may remember my friend, Fred. I probably haven't talked about
>> him in a long time, but he still lives across the road and we still talk
>> a lot, even after my DH died.
>>
>> OK. He is probably the single most shallow man I have ever known. He is a
>> dandy. He probably has 200 pairs of shoes, sometimes 3 different colors
>> of one style. He is VERY concerned about physical appearance. I might
>> mention that he is 57, and while he's an attractive man, I wouldn't call
>> him a hunk.
>>
>> His sense of humor is his only redeeming quality, as he grades women by
>> the appearance of their rear end. I just find this almost unbearable, and
>> always have. He even had my daughter's best friend stand up at the races
>> one night and said to me, "OK, Becky, I want you to find me a woman my
>> age with a *** that looks like that." I had to inform him that, sadly,
>> people our age don't have butts like that.
>>
>> So in spite of all this, there is a woman who has been head over heels in
>> love with him since the 3rd grade at Hope. She is a very determined
>> individual and she has kept after him for years, until they're finally
>> together.
>>
>> He told me, "Ya know, she's gaining weight! All we do is eat, and it's
>> showing on her!" I told him something like oh, well, there's Pat's
>> getting fat, and then there's terrorism and stuff. The world is a
>> terrible place.
>>
>> He had told me before that he wondered what would happen if he bought a
>> size 10 wedding dress and hung it in the closet and told her - Get into
>> that, and we'll talk. This woman is nearly 6 feet tall, and not tiny, but
>> she is far, far from obese.
>>
>> I told him I sincerely hoped that she killed him while he was wide awake
>> if he said a thing like that to her.
>>
>> So he tells me that he got a snoot full of beer over the weekend and they
>> were sitting on the patio. He said he looked at her and told her, "You
>> know, if you could get down into about a size 14, you'd be a fine-looking
>> woman."
>>
>> She looked at him. "This IS a 14."
>>
>> He said: "Okay. A 12, then."
>>
>> I laughed until tears rolled down my face. I told him he deserved
>> whatever she throws at him, but he said she just laughed at him.
>>
>> She gets the "Good sport of the year" award or something. I'd have killed
>> him.
>>
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