So lately I've been feeling less like a girl and more like what you see here. Bad hair, bad skin, the Progressive 50 (which is like the freshman 15, only older and more call center like).
But today! Today is wonderful and smells nice and feels nice and on top of all that, my 21 year old trainer at work tells me he's shocked, SHOCKED I say, to find out that I'm not his age. And that I look "pretty damn good". Which could be construed as bad, since exactly how old does he think 27 is? but I'll take it.
So now I feel more like this:
The one in the barrel that is.
I wanted to say something more to him, but it would have all sounded caustic, even though I didn't mean to be. He was just being nice I guess. But before he found this out he was being totally cool and I'm worried that now he'll see me as some old fogie. According to OnlineDictionary.com, here's the definition of fogie. Read the last one especially....
fogie - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Fogie \Fo"gie\, n.
See Fogy.
[1913 Webster]
Fogy \Fo"gy\, n.; pl. Fogies.
1. A dull old fellow; a person behind the times,
over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old; an
old fogy. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The word is said to be connected with the German vogt,
a guard or protector. By others it is regarded as a
diminutive of folk (cf. D. volkje). It is defined by
Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, as "an invalid or
garrison soldier," and is applied to the old soldiers
of the Royal Hospital at Dublin, which is called the
Fogies' Hospital. In the fixed habits of such persons
we see the origin of the present use of the term. --Sir
F. Head.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mil.) In the United States service, extra pay granted to
officers for length of service. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
