URSULA
What would you think of a person who keeps on describing herself sounding quite immodest ?
The first thing she told me was hello I´m Ursula I write books and I´m a singer, the title of my new novel is */-&”·! ( don´t remember)I told her: oh, quite good¡ and immediately I realised the size of her ego and understood it like talking with a girl of about 10 y.o. who is always said to be beautiful, smart and very clever, a spoiled girl but in the case on her middle thirties¡
Not many minutes later she told me she was working as a marketing director, in fact what she wanted to say was that she was well-off , another hit of her successful life, then I thought how can anyone introduces herself like that not being in a business meeting or talking with that old lad from school who used to abused you every day.
She asked me about my job and I had to say that I´m unemployed, then she offered me a part-time job, how kind¡ it was about showing the flats they were selling in the company she worked in, for 400 euros a month, plus commission for deal done. I had to reject saying that I´m not interested in the real state industry at the moment.
The weather was mild, the water in the swimming pool was perfect for a chill-fiend like me and we had brought food and beer for ten people being five.
As she soon realised I was not impressed but a little sick of all her luck in life and savoir-faire, she begun flattering me so directly refering to my body shape, my eyes, my face , even the space between my front teeth looked beautiful for her¡ and I must confess that this twist really amazed me, I was completely puzzled because I realised her effort to be liked but she didn´t success at all in that.
After having a xxl sized barbecue full with onions, aubergines, zucchini and the essential lamb t-bones, layed the table and the salad done, needless to say she didn´t move a finger in all that. We start to din at the light of the candles on a starry night. There she nibbled at the food like a little bird for a few minutes and then started saying she was full up and that she had ate a lot, to go on after a break saying she had being very ill, no illness mentioned and that she used to weight twenty kilos more just a couple of months ago because she was medicating with cortisone and that , apart from the illness she suffered a deep deppression which put her off her job for six months because she couldn’t stand seeing herself in such a fat body.
The first thing she told me was hello I´m Ursula I write books and I´m a singer, the title of my new novel is */-&”·! ( don´t remember)I told her: oh, quite good¡ and immediately I realised the size of her ego and understood it like talking with a girl of about 10 y.o. who is always said to be beautiful, smart and very clever, a spoiled girl but in the case on her middle thirties¡
Not many minutes later she told me she was working as a marketing director, in fact what she wanted to say was that she was well-off , another hit of her successful life, then I thought how can anyone introduces herself like that not being in a business meeting or talking with that old lad from school who used to abused you every day.
She asked me about my job and I had to say that I´m unemployed, then she offered me a part-time job, how kind¡ it was about showing the flats they were selling in the company she worked in, for 400 euros a month, plus commission for deal done. I had to reject saying that I´m not interested in the real state industry at the moment.
The weather was mild, the water in the swimming pool was perfect for a chill-fiend like me and we had brought food and beer for ten people being five.
As she soon realised I was not impressed but a little sick of all her luck in life and savoir-faire, she begun flattering me so directly refering to my body shape, my eyes, my face , even the space between my front teeth looked beautiful for her¡ and I must confess that this twist really amazed me, I was completely puzzled because I realised her effort to be liked but she didn´t success at all in that.
After having a xxl sized barbecue full with onions, aubergines, zucchini and the essential lamb t-bones, layed the table and the salad done, needless to say she didn´t move a finger in all that. We start to din at the light of the candles on a starry night. There she nibbled at the food like a little bird for a few minutes and then started saying she was full up and that she had ate a lot, to go on after a break saying she had being very ill, no illness mentioned and that she used to weight twenty kilos more just a couple of months ago because she was medicating with cortisone and that , apart from the illness she suffered a deep deppression which put her off her job for six months because she couldn’t stand seeing herself in such a fat body.
Nobody really paid attention to what she was saying but as she was sitting beside me I felt obliged to ask her about how did she feel and she told me now she was feeling better but, and going back to the bad times, she told me that her family had been so cruel to her telling her off all the time for being fat¡ and that she must get slimmer. Incredible isn´t it? .Then she told me her mother used to be a very famous model in Peru and that one of her sisters was the second in the world contest of beauty in 1995 and as she was the ugly duck of the family she felt if possible, even worst.
I suddenly felt like if I had being unfair to her, judging her too soon without taking into account that she could have been going through a bad moment in live. Now I think I must meet her again and maybe take care of her, as she showed being so fragile and having that non-supportive family¡
I suddenly felt like if I had being unfair to her, judging her too soon without taking into account that she could have been going through a bad moment in live. Now I think I must meet her again and maybe take care of her, as she showed being so fragile and having that non-supportive family¡
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