The post where I overshare with purpose.
A couple of nights ago I was up almost every hour with a lovely gastro-intestinal thing which allowed me an unexpected opportunity to catch up with my magazine reading. As I made the dash to the bathroom, I grabbed the May issue of Woman's Day I had purchased earlier that afternoon. Aviva and I had quoted in an article about how parents can give their teens more freedom and have less worry. (The article is"Independence Day" and is written by Karen Leland.) I read the article where we appeared and began to peruse the rest of the magazine.
Intermittently.
Flipping through the pages, my eye caught on an article headline recommending, "drink a smoothie." Given my current state of being, a smoothie definitely sounded appealing. After reading the short paragraph which included a recipe for a fruit smoothie featuring banana (yay!), my eye wandered along the page to another headline which suggested, "do a mole check in the shower."
"What?!" my own voice screamed in my head and then it took off on it's own, "What the hell are they talking about? That's really strange." Obviously I had to do a double take. Not because I am unfamiliar with checking one's skin for moles, I know all about that having more doctors in my family than one ever has a right to, it's because I didn't read "mole" as something relating to the skin or a health concern. I went in a totally different direction because I didn't make the transition from the previous food related topic, i.e the smoothie, to a non-food related topic of relating to one's epidermis.
Nope, not a single dermatological connection made it into my brain, instead my brain went to Mexico spent time with a Mexican sauce which is pronounced as "Mo-lay."
And this is why, my friends, "do a check for mole in the shower" caught me just a little off guard.
Moral of the story: Devra really likes Mole, but not enough to bathe with it.
Intermittently.
Flipping through the pages, my eye caught on an article headline recommending, "drink a smoothie." Given my current state of being, a smoothie definitely sounded appealing. After reading the short paragraph which included a recipe for a fruit smoothie featuring banana (yay!), my eye wandered along the page to another headline which suggested, "do a mole check in the shower."
"What?!" my own voice screamed in my head and then it took off on it's own, "What the hell are they talking about? That's really strange." Obviously I had to do a double take. Not because I am unfamiliar with checking one's skin for moles, I know all about that having more doctors in my family than one ever has a right to, it's because I didn't read "mole" as something relating to the skin or a health concern. I went in a totally different direction because I didn't make the transition from the previous food related topic, i.e the smoothie, to a non-food related topic of relating to one's epidermis.
Nope, not a single dermatological connection made it into my brain, instead my brain went to Mexico spent time with a Mexican sauce which is pronounced as "Mo-lay."
And this is why, my friends, "do a check for mole in the shower" caught me just a little off guard.
Moral of the story: Devra really likes Mole, but not enough to bathe with it.
Picture credit: We Love DC.
Labels: Karen Leland, Mole, Teen Independence, We Love DC, Woman's Day Magazine
posted by Devra and Aviva @ 12:55 PM
7 Comments:
Ha, I read it as mexican mole (molay) too and imagined some high end cinnamon, chocolate, sesame, chile, goop running down the drain...and then wondered if it didn't make your gastro a little worse?
Ha! And such is the power of a homonym.
and here I thought the article was about checking for naked mole rats in the shower -- or maybe that's just indicative of the house I live in.
Hi you 2,
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Cheers.
Just stopping by your site for the first time...love your sense of humor!
LOL. I think I'm going to laughing hard in the shower tomorrow morning when I do a quick check for some Mole... mmmm. HA!
Hmph. I was goign to comment on your post, but I can't stop thinking about that spammy self-serving comment left by your new loyal reader "Paul." Ugh.
Congrats on the "rich online legacy" you are creating. Now bring me your barf bucket, please.
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