Someday I’m Gonna Eat Like the Boys
/My life has been one long calorie count. I remember starving through high school eating carrots and celery. And one day, I remember looking down at my Bermuda shorts (yes, I am that old) and thinking that my thighs looked like the thighs of a hamburger-eater, not a celery-eater. How is that fair?
And yet, I persevered and I persevere to this day. But, as I was wandering around the city today during lunch hour, I Noticed something quite obvious: there are boy eateries and girl eateries!
Now don’t go calling me a sexist whatever. I am just trying to point out elemental truths. Boy eateries advertise the biggest, fattest, most caloric sandwiches known to man (and woman). Girl eateries advertise greens galore to be topped with grilled chicken or salmon. I know that both genders do eat in both types of places, but creamy ranch dressing (150 calories per 2 tablespoon serving, and I bet you didn’t use just 2 tablespoons) soaks the salad on only one type of human.
Yes! Yes I am jealous! Of course I am jealous!
But I have a plan.
On my 80th birthday, which (my Bermuda shorts comment notwithstanding) is quite a way off, I plan to have a big celebration. I will start with breakfast. French toast with quite a bit of syrup, thank you. Nah. Just bring me a basket of croissants, muffins, and Danish! Well, maybe a huge stack of pancakes! But, geez! Get that fruit bowl away from me!
Now lunch. A Boy lunch for me. Give me the fattest sandwich in the land, filled with red meats of all kinds! Yes, of course I want French fries. Why even ask? Well, maybe instead, a big fat hamburger with cheese! Hah! Yes! Wait…. Why not go for Italian and have a huge bowl of pasta with meatballs! Yes, the garlic bread too! Hahahahaha!
Dinner. Ugh. I am too full now to even think of dinner. But here’s the thing: Dessert! Dessert is the most important part of my plan. I will have cake! I will have an ice cream cone. Well, why not an ice cream soda? Hell, I’ll have a milkshake! I will have home-made chocolate chip cookies! (Will you make them for me?) I will have candy. Candy? I will eat a box of chocolates a la Forrest Gump, and be surprised at what I get.
Anyway, you get the picture. At my 80th birthday plus one, it’s back to carrots and celery. But I will have even greater plans for my 90th! For my 90th, it will be only candy, cake, cookies, and ice cream!
You are cordially invited to these birthday celebrations of gluttony. Are you in?
©2014 Margery Leveen Sher
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Margery Leveen Sher is a speaker, writer, and entrepreneur with decades of experience as a consultant for major corporations and government agencies. She is the founder and Chief Noticing Officer of The Did Ya Notice? Project, and is currently writing the definitive book on Noticing.
