Sometimes Being a Girl...

...is Stupid

I'm not a girl's girl but there are certain girlish things that are just drilled into you.  By life experience, TV, magazines?  Who knows.  But, even as I get older, I still find myself stuck in some of the stupid mind sets of a teenager.

Recently, I had to have a medical test.  It's one I've had before and I know that it involves laying facedown on a table.  As I got dressed in the morning I had a few things to consider.  I needed comfy pants with no metal so I could keep them on for the test. Sweats seem the obvious option.  But I was torn- sweats made my ass look even... clunkier... than it is to start.  Really?!  I was standing there deliberating which pants would look my ass look less substantial when I was face down with people forced to look at my posterior for a half hour.

Insanity...  I knew I was being crazy so I put the sweats on, telling myself to stop being so stupid.   But then, guess what, I changed to what I hoped were more flattering shorts.  Idiot.  As if those nice doctors and nurses are standing there with a clipboard rating us patients instead of  looking at their screens and talking about their weekend plans. But sometimes you just can't push the stupid  teenage girl voice out of your head...

And during the test, as I laid facedown with the gown covering my butt anyway (wasted angst!),  I realized they would be staring at the bottom of my shoes! (Which were my favorites comfy sneakers with the worn down soles...)  That's what they could see most clearly from their window.  And I decided that next time, I will worry about my shoes rather than my butt.  How funny would it be if I wrote something silly on the sole of my shoes?  I doubt they would notice right away.  They would suddenly spot it.  They big dilemma would be what to write?  The first that comes to mind is, obviously, "Does this MRI make my butt look big?"  Or maybe a simple, "Whatssup?" Or a joke written from one shoe to the other?