Healthy!

[pen_grunt]

For dinner my co-workers and I went to an Irish Pub right by the hotel.
We sat down next to an old couple that eats there every week and has for 20-some years.
They're native New Yorkers living in Boston after meeting in San Francisco and they'd been married 58 years.

The husband asked us where we were from.
Co-worker: I'm from California and these guys are from Minnesota.
Husband: [Referring to me] Oh yeah, she looks like she's from Minnesota.
Co-worker (sarcastic): Really. How can you tell?
Husband: She looks so...healthy.

I think co-worker expected the old dude to say "Scandinavian" or blonde or something. Newp. I am a picture of Minnesotan health.

I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

He probably wanted to say something really complementary, like you have perfect skin (one of the myriad of your positive aesthetic traits), but hesitated because his wife was there.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Oh! You know what? I bet he was going to say "pale" but then thought it was insulting so switched.

I think he would have said something nice even with his wife there--they were both like late-80-something.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

He meant all Freshly Scrubbed and Wholesomey.
I'm sorry to have to tell you that.

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

Um, best health care system in the country, maybe?

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sort of wholesomey on the outside, so...

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I should be on a billboard!