Yes! It's a holiday tomorrow today! Holidays on Mondays always get me up! (Give yourself bonus points if you caught the obscure reference.)

Since it's a holiday, I decided to catch up on some blogs I haven't visited in a while. Reading this post from Neko reminded me of something that happened last Saturday night while I was waiting for a friend to buy medicine from a Watson's Shop pharmacy.

There I was standing just outside the store when this promotions lady for Xando Block and Burn diet pills approached me. I'm not exactly a picture of slenderness, so I didn't know if I should be offended or not. I thought it didn't really matter since I wasn't interested anyway, so I tried to shoo her away gently by giving her a knowing grin coupled by a shake of my head.

I thought that was enough. That should have been a graceful enough exit point for her, except she didn't seem to have any type of grace at all. She suddenly became all defensive, claiming that she didn't approach me because she thought I was... umm... err... on the heavy side, but because she was wondering if I might know someone who'd want the pills. Yeah, right!

I told her not to worry about it, that I wasn't at all offended. But she just couldn't let the matter drop--kept saying how it's only a job and nothing personal. She said she approaches thin people as well, then, realizing the foolishness of her statement, backpedaled and insisted that she wasn't implying that I'm fat. (Which, I hope you've gathered by now, I am.)

After ten years, my friend finally finished her purchase and rescued me from that awful saleslady. She was so tiresome. I bet if my friend delayed for another five minutes, I would have purchased a box just to shut her up. Which got me thinking--perhaps that was their sales strategy all along.

Bug and sell... genius.