OK ... so it was hard NOT to be insulted ...

Hey ... now there's an idea!!! I've been wanting to take a road trip ... CandyGirl get out the roll-away-bed, you might get company!!! (Just joking ... I WISH!!!) It's good to know though that Candy's the "go-to" girl for remakes ... information stored for now! Myra

ready when u are my dear u are a much better person than i you handled yourself very nicely my red headed irish temper would have come out you are beautiful inside and out dont ever forget that

Well, some people just have alot of nerve. Maybe her momma didn't teach her well! Just how 'dolled up' does one need to be for an exercise class anyway?!? I think your gray hair looks great! I agree with some others here... you were nicer to her ALOT longer than I would have been. We need to have a SMO round up and go her! Huggs, Ruth

Ruthie ... too funny!! I love those little zappers zapzap M

Hi Myra, Do you think that maybe this hotsy-totsy gal was trying to "sell" something to you??? Maybe her services or getting a commission for herself somewhere??? It's easy to sit back and say I should've said this, I should've said that...In reality, there is nothing wrong with being nice to the delutional lady. I think your momma would had been proud of your "come-back". My momma aways says, What comes around, goes around. Now I feel like Forest Gump...."my momma always says, life is like a box of chocolates......" Anyways....she'll get her's in the end. Isn't being a wls postie liberating??? HugsGinger

LOL Ginger, Mommas tend to loom really large in consciences sometimes don't they!!! Mine's about 5'1" (I'm 5'7" and all my siblings are that or over) but she's always been a little dynamo. Now, at almost 83, she's STILL a little dynamo. She was a typical 50s mother and raised us all with some rules of behavior that stuck. and .. YEP .. for sure, it's so nice to be able to *talk* to all of you about things once in a while ... it wasn't exactly WLS fare, but it's life for sure. Myra

jeez, myra, maybe you'd of been better off if she wa****ting on you. (not that there would be anything wrong with that...) but to have to take a personal affront on your self - i'd a slapped her up one side and down the other. (well, i woulda wanted to, anyway). my hair went short short and back to it's natural color when i had my first rotator cuff surgery about five years ago. by the time i had my other shoulder done, for the second time, i was used to the koosh ball short hair and don't even like it longer than an inch or two anymore. when i started dying it again i thought about it a long time. i'm too cheap to go to the hair colorist, too - i even hate spending the money on the at home stuff - but i knew i wanted a new hair color along with my new body weight. along the way, i've been a redhead, a brunette, a blonde, gray haired, and all colors in between. including a shade of orange you really just cannot find in nature. LMAO. where was i? gotta love that vicodin. have a great weekend. hugs dorthe

Hm ... a redhead ... maybe that's what I ought to try!?! As for the "koosh" ball haircut ... that's exactly the kind I had when I cut it all off to grow out the gray ... except mine didn't exactly "koosh" ... it just all sort of laid flat. I could never get it to stand up so it was a bit like a cap ... a little gray cap I cracked up at your "slapped her up one side and down the other" ... geez, Dorthe, could we HAVE more in common?!? I can tell you're from middle-USA, just like me ... heartland phrases abound!!! Cheap and talk alike ... yep, we're SMO sisters for sure!!! from the *armpit* ... er ... make that heartland of Missouri Myra

Hey Myra, Boy I tell ya the nerves of some people. She needs to come down here where I live where its 150 in the shade in the summer. Then we will see how together she will look after she gets out there with her war paint on and her do. The humidity alone will melt her like the witch on wizzard of oz. I dont know what gives people the stupidity to just bluntly say things. And cant blame it on age. My grandson is five and knows theres some things you dont say because they are rude. I can remember a woman coming up to me after me and my sister pigged out at a restaurant one time in the parking lot. Just out of the blue she says you know, my neice has lost alot of weight by using whatever it was. Cant remember and I was just like a deer in a headlight look. I just was amazed that someone could walk up to a stranger at that and just tell them things like that. My moma taught me to be nice to elders and yes she was an older lady but come on. That doesnt give her the go ahead. And after the fact me and my sister was like I should have told her this and that lol.... But takes all kinds I guess. I myself thing you are very attractive and you do what you feel you want to. Not everybody in the world is painted, bleached, dyed, and polished!! You are you and thats what matters!! Hugs Marge

Hugs back, Marge!! The "deer in headlights" thing is just about how I reacted too ... and then the old "laugh it off" thing we've all learned as obese people. I think I would have done better with the whole thing if she *HAD* been criticizing me for my weight, because I have more experience dealing with that sort of thing. The world is certainly full of all kinds of people, that's for sure ... and I'm realizing daily how being SMO had been keeping me insulated from alot of them. Not insulated from hurtful things they said, but just not dealing with a great majority of people at all. Now I'm out and about more and more and am coming into contact with lots of situations I used to avoid like the plague. People like this woman just "come with the territory". I'm just ALWAYS surprised by them ((HUGS)) Myra