Tuesday, December 07, 2004

lesson #111: spectacular spectacular

Why are boys so obsessed with wanting to see a girl wear specs? Or maybe I shouldn't generalise. Maybe it's just the boys I've been romantically involved with. I've heard the statement 'I wanna see you in glasses' from different guys not once, not twice, not thrice, not four times, but five times! (Eh, not all of them ended up as boyfriends...)


So anyway. You see, my dear man, the reason I'm not wearing glasses in front of you is because I look fuggly wuggly ugly in them. But although I resist, they insist. And just to get it over with, I'd send over a picture of me in glasses, looking fuggly wuggly ugly. And they'd laugh and laugh and laugh... And finally say that I don't look too good in glasses. DUH! Hello! I've only been trying to tell you that for eons! Errarrgh.


My first boyfriend was different, though. He didn't just want to see a picture. He wanted to see me WEAR glasses right in front of him. Yep. Wanted me to walk around wearing glasses, while he observed. What am I, a circus chimpanzee? Although his request didn't seem unreasonable, it did prove to be an annoying one. Because in the end, I gave in and brought forward those sacred specs and very very slowly, in slow motion it seemed, put them on. And then he said, disappointed, "You don't look very good in them." ERRARRGH! What the hell is your problem? I've done as you say, despite me hating my own vision in glasses. The least you can do is LIE and tell me I look okay. Tell me anything, but definitely NOT that I look fuggly wuggly ugly. It isn't a very nice feeling when people confirm your insecurities. Self-confidence takes a beating, and all that.


Moral of the story? Listen to the girl. When she says she doesn't look good in something, listen to her! Spare both of you the agony of an ugly sight.


Sigh.