08 April 2005
peet's
overheard: "dude, she was already a double D in 6th grade."
i've been pondering this clause for a few hours now. i heard it in a peet's coffee in palo alto, by some snooty teenager (one of those perfect looking ones, who have the clothes and the perfect skin and the boyfriend and the car, and who are probably very unhappy). her friends/sidekicks laughed when she said it. which just made me mad. that poor double-D 6th grader, probably now a 10th grader. big boobs can hurt and are heavy, are an embarassment at that age, and teenage boys automatically think that someone with big boobs is sexual. and here they were, using that as a feature which defined her personality. pissed me off. teenagers either make me laugh hysterically at this point, or make me quite angry.
peet's coffee ("a small, one shot soy latte") was an interesting experience today anyways. rhonda, the woman taking orders -- in her late thirties, and she looked like a rhonda -- asked everyone their name. and then said an "appropriate" phrase in return to their name, e.g., she basically guessed of what nationality, ethnicity, ilk you were and said something. the girl infront of me, a high schooler, had an indian name, and the woman said something in hindi. the girl didn't respond. i said my name, with its german pronounciation, and in stead of "einen schoenen tag noch" or "auf wiedersehen" or "tschuess" or "bis bald", i got shabat shalom. which surprised me. now my paternal great grandfather was jewish, but i know that doesn't count, and she couldn't have known my familiy history involving illegetimate children, etc., so that was just bizarre. well, shabat shalom indeed. though i am in no way religious, nominally celebrate christian holidays, "holydays" or sabbaths are still a nice thing.
i'm rambling, ranting, not quite raving. i need to get my clothes ironed for russia. sdrastvuytye and all that jazz. later gaters, more from moscow! do svidanya!
dandlioneyes at 12:31 pm