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Torn
In an effort to make good on one resolution (no, no, my sourpuss rating remains as high as ever), I made it to the gym where I had one of those hours in which one is pulled in various directions.
Also at the gym was a teenager, a young teenager, not yet fifteen, so very very young, who is there because her mother wants her to be there. That should say it all. She and I know each other vaguely since we are there at the same time and share an instructor who apparently teased her lightly about the fact that I was pretty good at standing on one foot for a long time with weights in my hands. She replied that I should be good at it because I didn't have much else to do, sitting around all day watching a couple of kids.
Well.
Well, I wasn't there for the comment but was a bit taken aback. I often think it is an enormous relief that I do work because I would be completely fried if I didn't break from the domestic sublime to work. Really. (The fact that I often have to do this work early in the morning or late at night aside...)
But there is no arguing with a young teenager anyway and if I am going to stoop to her level I'll just keep in mind the fact that I can stand on one foot with weights in my hands for a lot longer than she can.
On the other side of things, as I was sweatily ambling out of the place, another instructor pointed out that I didn't have to wear my maternity t-shirt any longer. She is right, of course. I am no longer pregnant and it has been many months now since I have needed to wear it and yet I never even though about putting that particular bit of knocked-up garb aside.
And how ridiculous is it to be indignant about a teenager saying what a lazy business it is being a mother while refusing to move on past the maternity t-shirts?
Very.
posted by Elise at 11:46 AM
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