Monday, January 28, 2008

They Grow Up (and Become Weight Obsessed) So Fast These Days

Here's a little story from my sister-in-law MrsOz (who happens to be beautiful) involving her and her 5 year old daughter (Daughter #2):

They're watching TV and a commercial for Slim-Fast is on. The commercial makes some sort of reference to stomach shapes or some shit.

Daughter #2: Mommy, I think you should get Slim-Fast.

MrsOz: Really? Don't you like my belly the way it is?

Daughter #2: Well I love it, but other people might not.

Stuff like that is hilarious when they're not your kids. It's probably pretty funny even when they are. After you get done weeping from self-loathing at least.

3 comments:

Elle said...

Hah. Me and my mom saw that commercial. She said, "none of their stomachs looked that great", insinuating that this Slim Fast is not a miracle worker. I said, "Well... what are they supposed to do, put the anorexic runway models in the commercial?"

limpy99 said...

I just wish my kids would stop highlighting the penis enhancement ads and leaving them on my breakfast plate. Or has my wife been lying to me about who's doing that?

Phollower said...

elle: I'm pretty sure if the anorexic models were in the commercial a huge majority of dieters would just give right-the-hell up.

limpy: The Spousal Unit said our kids were doing it too. A mere 2 1/2 weeks later I realized we don't have kids. And that's why. Because it took me more than a fortnight to catch on that those kids haven't been around much lately and then start thinking "What kids?" and... "Hey, wait a minute"...

We ain't all fathers-of-the-year ya know.