26 August 2021

Cringeworthy

 "... Then, when I got to the [grocery] store, I heard the woman who waited on customers say to the man ahead of me, "Hi, honey.  God, you're beautiful today," and this struck me as untrue, because I had seen the man quite clearly.  After he left I said to her, "What made you say that to that man?  He was one of the ugliest men I have ever seen," and she replied, "That was my husband."
--- anecdote in Jamaica Kincaid's My Garden Book (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999)

1 comment:

  1. And that's when you say isn't that the sweetest thing ever, and GTFO, lol.

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