dual personalities

Lately, I’ve been watching some classic episodes of Designing Women.

And I’m still reading No. 1 Detective Agency.

“She had a taste for sugar, however, and this meant that a doughnut or a cake might follow the sandwich. She was a traditionally built lady, after all, and she did not have to worry about dress size, unlike those poor neurotic people who were always looking in mirrors and thinking that they were too big. What was too big, anyway? Who was to tell another person what size they should be? It was a form of dictatorship, by the thin, and she was not having any of it.”

Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

“Mma Ramotswe looked at the woman in front of her. As the newspaper photographs had suggested, she was traditionally built about the face, but also everywhere else, and her dress was straining at the sides. She should move up a size or two, thought Mma Ramotswe, and then those panels on the side would not look as if they were about to rip. There really was no point in fighting these things: it is far better to admit one’s size and indeed there is even a case for buying a slightly larger size. That gives more room for manoeuvre.”

Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

And then this is what my day-by-day Peanuts calendar had yesterday.

What is the universe telling me? I know when I’ve been insulted.