Tuesday, July 17, 2007

I think I am speaking English

When I ask you for a low fat muffin, please don’t stare at me like I am asking for a vodka martini at the coffee shop. And then, please don’t answer me by saying that you have bran muffins. Just because a muffin has bran in it, does not mean it is low fat. They are not the same thing.

A similar misunderstanding would happen when I used to tell people I was a vegetarian. “So you don’t eat any meat?” they would sometimes say. To which I always wanted to reply, “Only the bloody, still-warm flesh of small furry animals.”

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