Angry?Flattered?Confused?Joking?

momcat2000

18 years ago

My Sister-in-law's brother and wife are visiting from Southern California.

After a few minutes of small talk the wife asks "Have you had some work done?"

Me: "Well, I had a new roof put on last spring"

Wife: "No, have you had work done on yourself"

Me: "I work out if thats what you mean"

Wife: "No, any enhancements?"

Me: "Enhancements? Like hair extensions?"

(By this time I'm begining to feel like a real Rube)

Wife: "You know, surgury"

Me: "No, is something wrong, I feel pretty healthy")

Wife: "Enhancements, like botox

(Now I finally make the connection)

Me: "No, do you think I need to?"

Wife: "I was just asking because you look pretty put together for someone your age"

(MY AGE?)

Me: "Well, thanks, I guess the kids keep me young"

Wife: "Then I need to borrow your children"

Me: "HaHa"

So now we have changed the topic and small talk for awhile about our kids.

So, I'm thinking "enhancements" are something that is discussed every day where she lives?

Is she a nut case or what............

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ivamae
18 years ago
I guess you should feel flattered but I think I would feel she was a very nosey parker
ivamae
vannie
18 years ago
You should be flattered and just consider that she is rude. No reflection on you!
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Kathsgrdn
18 years ago
Sounds rude to me.
mrsmarv
18 years ago
Some people are obsessed with finding the "fountain of youth". Gheesh, how about embracing your age, instead of trying to defy it? She sounds like she's one who is trying to defy it...too bad for her ;o)
Eliza_ann_ca
18 years ago
I think I would just feel flattered and leave it at that.
Some people just don't have a way with words,but in the end,it was a nice compliment!
wildchild
18 years ago
Yes. It's kind of a South Cali thing. My friends from down there are always talking about saving up for some face lift thing or something. Of course these same friends won't go to the dentist to get their rotting teeth fixed which would be a far better improvement. Go figure.
stephanie_in_ga
18 years ago
Amused, that's what my reaction would be. I don't think I would have been able to contain my laughter. "You look pretty put together for someone your age." Hearing someone embarrass themself by such a tactless comment would have me rolling on the floor laughing til a cried. That kind of comment says more about her than it does about you.
lulie___wayne
18 years ago
She must be one of those "Wives From Orange County". Someone told me about that show and I watched it once. AMAZING All you can do is feel sorry for those people whose priorities are so out of line.
I know some very nice people in Southern CA so please don't let me offend anyone. It's just that I also know from personal experience and the TV show that there are some pretty shallow ones there, also. Just like everywhere.
You need to buy this woman an etiquette book for Christmas.
Lu
momcat2000
Original Author
18 years ago
Stephanie, I'm pretty gullible and I usually think of what I should have said after the opportunity is gone. If I had known what she was talking about from the begining, I probably wouldn't of been to contain my laughter either.
Wildchild, that's probably why she didn't give a second thought about asking me. I wish I had had a jar of jelly beans or something and had given it to her and told her to take "one a day" to cure all facial sun damage (because she really needed it...meow)
Toni S
18 years ago
At least she said something positive at the end. MO you should let it go.
socks
18 years ago
Wildchild, it is not a So. CA thing!!! I've lived and worked here all my life and almost never hear conversation about having work done.

Wife is obviously a shallow, poor mannered person, and we have plenty of those in every state of the union.

Toni is right, don't make an issue of it. It was kind of funny though.
mariend
18 years ago
Depends on what area you are in CA. Lived there for over 70 years now in the midwest, and yes this was discussed without a problem. Kind of a LA culture things. Here Cancer is discussed freely because people care, there just talking about it is a Big NO NO. DH has a friend who refuses to communicate with us because DH has cancer--guess it is congegious by mail--someone forgot to tell me.
sheilajoyce_gw
18 years ago
Yes, it is definitely a southern California topic. My sons have commented to me that when they were in high school, many a girl graduate got surgical breast implants for their graduation present from the parents. It starts young in some circles.
lunchlady1948
18 years ago
It is a South Orange County thang :) That is where the OC Housewives live in Cota a gated community. They are so ugly and plastic and think they deserve so much in life.

OPPS no offence to my Southern Cali friends~~I just think it is so funny how so many people think what happens on shows like that and all the junk in Hollywood is what we are all about.

I am a So Cal gal, I live inland and I do know lots of gals that have gotten touch ups and boobies. One gal I worked with got her DD boobies for a college graduation gift?? She even took out a loan out for them! My DD got a Lap top:)

Momcat be flattered I would:) She thought you looked good:)
ronm80
18 years ago
Southern Ca? I live in the back woods in south Georgia and I hear these conversations all the time. All 3 of my SIl and several of my friends have had several plastic surgeries. Most of them are in their 40s. They are always telling me what I need to have done. I just laugh. After surviving cancer twice, it is just not on my list of things to do.
jannie
18 years ago
My husband is convinced his sister got a boob job. Now he wants me to get one. I told him "no way" I'll go thru surgery for his vanity!
gwanny2three
18 years ago
I live in So CA, born and raised here.....I only hear about those conversations. I personally don't know anyone that shallow. My soon to be DIL works in Manhattan Beach in a spa. She says the ladies that come in there are all very
up-ity and snooty. Most are very rude and she does all she can to bite her tongue sometimes! Very high maintance women in the beach communities. Is she from the beach areas? The rudeness would be expected then I guess LOL!
grammahony
18 years ago
Jannie, tell him you'll have a boob job if he'll have a penis implant. Bwahahaha.
Leslie
joyfulguy
18 years ago
They have quite a lot of sun in So.CA, don't they?

It's reported to have a deletorious effect not only on the skin of the face ..

... but sometimes on what lies behind it, isn't it?

o j
Pieonear
18 years ago
I'd take her comments as a real compliment, but a poorly stated one. :)
FlamingO in AR
18 years ago
I agree with Mammie. I would be flattered but I would also take it with a grain of salt, considering the source. lol I guess it's safe to assume that you don't see this person very often, so at least you don't have to listen to her much. :)
kittiemom
18 years ago
I would be flattered in a way. She certainly doesn't have a lot of tact.
momcat2000
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18 years ago
Gwanny - My SIL grew up in San Diego, Encinitas (sp?), her bro still lives there

Flamingo - This was the first time I had met them over the new year holidays

Joyfulguy - so true, wouldn't all that sun really age your skin? I wonder how the women deal with it..

Gramma - Bwahahahah is right - that is too funny

Ronm - one of my best friends is from Alabama, and she says when she goes down south for a family reunion, you had better look good or "you will be discussed"

lunchlady + shiela - I got a sewing machine when I graduated from college - My My how times have changed...

Mariend - Wow, that's kinda twisted of them, don't you think? Was moving to the midwest a "culture shock"?

Wildchild - At least insurance will pay for your teeth sometimes, wow, there is no excuse for that

Jannie - If DH has that kind of money for that kind of thing, I'll tell him a nice set of pearls or diamond earings can magically make your chest look bigger - let him think about that one for awhile - bless his little heart..

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