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my sister, the piece of work (funny, not a rant)



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You know how when you tell people you are going to have bariatric surgery, they say,

"You don't need that! It's so drastic. Why don't you just try a diet?"

Well my situation with my DS was different. I WAS thinking about surgery but I hadn't told anyone. My sister sends me an email out of the blue, offering to give me her old shoes (she has over 100 pairs), if I lose weight. I hadn't told her I was trying to lose weight, nor had I asked for her shoe cast offs (though they are pretty nice and expensive). Specifically she offers to send me her top quality boots (many pairs) from the 1980's. Gee thanks, DS, hard to pass up. Then she suggests that I might find a bariatric consult helpful!! GEEZ!

So I don't respond. My sister can be insulting but she's also so strange and clueless that she's hard to take seriously. I'm sure she didn't mean to hurt me, she was just being her interfering, clueless self.

So I have my surgery and last month I decide to tell the family. So I told her over the phone and she said,

"Oh, I'm so glad you decided to do something about that!"

Mind you, she is rather overweight herself. Sometimes, relatives are so weird, you've just gotta laugh.

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Your sister sound much more benign than my rancid one.

Jane x

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Sounds like you have a lucky sister ... lucky you didn't offer to give her the name of your surgeon & give her a stiff kick to the head! :D

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Enjoy your new boots!!!

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Ah yes, the boots. I live in the southwest desert. It never rains. It's never cold. What do I want boots for? Never need them here. And they're really gonna be fashionable too.

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Well I think the boots will come in handy when your stepping in all the sh&*, your sister is saying. Then like you said you can use them to give her a nice swift kick.

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Well I think the boots will come in handy when your stepping in all the sh&*, your sister is saying. Then like you said you can use them to give her a nice swift kick.

Ahhahahaaaaahahahaaahahahaaaa!!!! es!!!!:laugh0::laugh0::biggrin0::001_tongue::laugh0:

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Hmmm, your sister does sound clueless. What size shoes does she wear? I'll lose some weight for her, cuz I'd love some boots!

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In hind sight, sometimes I regret being so honest with people. This is one of those situations you can have a lot of fun with.

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hah oblivious.. lol I had a family friend that kept bugging me every Christmas about my weight.. and that I should take better care of my husband...etc etc.. the irony is that she was overweight herself. I try to be repectful of people who are my elders but in this case it was a lot harder hahaha... in retrospect maybe I should have told her to bud the hell out! :)

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