Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Eye of the Beholder

"You need to have your eyes checked," Gladys exclaimed in response to me telling her she was beautiful. "You're crazy! This face is old and wrinkled," she complained.

"Your face isn't where you're the most beautiful, anyway," I told her as I patted my heart.

"Well, I'd say it takes one to know one!" she retorted without skipping a beat.

5 comments:

Carolina John said...

that is so sweet! the closest i ever come to that in my job is getting stabbed in the heart by my co-workers. it's not as much fun as it sounds. ah, the glorious life of a programmer.

Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...

LMAO at CJ! Geez! First his wife meat-punches him ... then he gets too sick to run his marathon ... then a co-worker stabs him ...

You know, they say that in the US, a person experiences a trauma of some sort every 10 seconds ...

Carolina John IS that person ...

P.O.M. said...

Ha. You make me miss my grandparents. Gonna call them right now.

Unknown said...

awww, sweet.

we just lost a good friend of ours that was in his 80's. he was the most beautiful man i've ever met.

Sarah said...

Old people - they crack me up.