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06 September 2008

I learned something from a customer yesterday. →[More:] I'm not ordinarily a fan of plastic surgery, but I also am a fan of freedom of choice. You want to go buy yourself some boobs, you go right ahead. It's your money. But, really, you shouldn't get them bigger than your head. And they shouldn't be all shiny like that, like someone got at them with a floor waxer. And the lips...like two uncooked breakfast sausages glued to your face, not a good idea. I know it's impolite to gawk but to me and my coworkers, this was like a car wreck, you just couldn't look away.

(sadly, no pictures.

post by: jonmc at: 18:59 | 15 comments

Try these. If, that is, you dare.

posted by stilicho 06 September | 19:57

I met a woman the other day who had recently had a nose job and minor breast augmentation. I only know because she told me. She was really really beautiful. That's all.

posted by mullacc 06 September | 20:11

Yeah, I've seen more than my fair share of plastic surgery on the "desperate housewives" who shop in my store. But there's this one....now, she's got a great figure; long legs, slim figure, proportionate bosoms. Plus a great British accent. But there's something about her face. It's a shame, because she is attractive. It's just that she looks plastic, very hard plastic. Not that many guys notice her face as she wears tiny skirts and stilettos to food shop in.

posted by redvixen 06 September | 20:11

as she wears tiny skirts and stilettos to food shop in.

Those kind of people drive me bananas, too. It's a grocery store, not a fucking nightclub, glamourpuss.

posted by jonmc 06 September | 20:14

I don't see a lot of that here. When I do, though... my god, whoever they go to must be a madman. They all come out looking like REALLY GOOD drag queens. As in, like they were not born women. Strangest thing ever.

posted by kellydamnit 06 September | 20:26

Those kind of people drive me bananas, too. It's a grocery store, not a fucking nightclub, glamourpuss.

Long ago when I was in high school, the grocery stores hosted singles events on Wednesday evenings. "Meet your true love in the produce section!"

And now kellydammit has me thinking "To Wong Foo..." Great movie.

posted by lysdexic 06 September | 20:32

Long ago when I was in high school, the grocery stores hosted singles events on Wednesday evenings. "Meet your true love in the produce section!"

if they had any sense of humor, they would have done it the meat section.

(I've worked in grocery stores enough to know that any such event probably had the employees contemplating a shooting spree.)

posted by jonmc 06 September | 20:38

as she wears tiny skirts and stilettos to food shop in.

my stilettos?? cold. dead. feet.

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 07 September | 04:27

I wonder what a surgeon would tell me to get? I would look so terrible with a smaller nose or bigger lips. Probably botox (I'm a crone at 27) and lipo, lipo, lipo. Oh and boobs. I don't have big boobs. That's a problem, right?

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 07 September | 04:28

Obvious cosmetic surgery just makes me feel sad. I feel like those people have gotten suckered by the beauty industry. It just seems really sad to be constantly on this hamster wheel chasing this weird, arbitrary ideal and never being satisfied with the results.

It just depresses me when it's older actresses I respect. I understand why they do it -- they probably wouldn't ever get work if they didn't -- but I feel let down to hear that someone like Susan Sarandon is plasticized.

posted by loiseau 07 September | 09:25

... like this, for example. One one hand I feel deeply sad for her, but on the other I feel like she's perpetuating the fraud and it makes me angry.

posted by loiseau 07 September | 09:35

I'd like to get dimples.

posted by box 07 September | 10:07

*revs up power drill*

posted by jonmc 07 September | 10:56

I wonder what a surgeon would tell me to get? I would look so terrible with a smaller nose or bigger lips.

That's the thing it seems like people don't think about- how changing one part of your face will affect the rest of it. Making your nose smaller might make your chin look bigger (, Heidi Montag). Anyone can do what they want, I don't care, I just think it's important to be careful to look at the big picture.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 September | 12:33

the grocery stores hosted singles events on Wednesday evenings. "Meet your true love in the produce section!"

Bananas pointing up in your trolley means you're available, pointing down means you're not (or so it was in the early 90s).

I wonder what a surgeon would tell me to get?

The blood-suckers who create these poor freakish faces ask what the patient thinks is wrong, and takes it from there. Insecurity is a very powerful force.

posted by goo 07 September | 13:22

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