'There are downsides to looking this pretty'

• LJ

  

  On a recent flight to New York, I was delighted when a stewardess came over and gave me a bottle of champagne.
  
  ‘This is from the captain — he wants to welcome you on board and hopes you have a great flight today,’ she explained.
  You’re probably thinking ‘what a lovely surprise’. But while it was lovely, it wasn’t a surprise. At least, not for me.
  
  
  Throughout my adult life, I’ve regularly had bottles of bubbly or wine sent to my restaurant table by men I don’t know. Once, a well-dressed chap bought my train ticket when I was standing behind him in the queue, while there was another occasion when a charming gentleman paid my fare as I stepped out of a cab in Paris.
  Another time, as I was walking through London’s Portobello Road market, I was tapped on the shoulder and presented with a beautiful bunch of flowers. Even bar tenders frequently shoo my credit card away when I try to settle my bill.
  And whenever I’ve asked what I’ve done to deserve such treatment, the donors of these gifts have always said the same thing: my pleasing appearance and pretty smile made their day.
  If you’re a woman reading this, I’d hazard that you’ve already formed your own opinion about me — and it won’t be very flattering. For while many doors have been opened (literally) as a result of my looks, just as many have been metaphorically slammed in my face — and usually by my own sex.
  I’m not smug and I’m no flirt, yet over the years I’ve been dropped by countless friends who felt threatened if I was merely in the presence of their other halves. If their partners dared to actually talk to me, a sudden chill would descend on the room.

  
  
  
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• OneBuckeye

  

  I needed a good laugh.
• sleeper

  

  I wouldn't hit that with anything but a hammer.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  
• Commander of Awesome

  

  She's gorgeous! /gut
• superman

  Commander of Awesome;1139963 wrote:She's gorgeous! /gut

  haha! reps
• hasbeen

  

  Europe is fucked up.
• bigkahuna

  :thumbdown:
• vball10set

  good god :rolleyes:
• dwccrew

  

  She's a dirty mouthed liar.
• wkfan

  IWNHI
• Laley23

  

  Lying sack of shit.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I hate people like her.
• Heretic

  

  I'd say the main downside of looking that pretty is the simple reality that you're an average middle-aged woman with an ugly husband who has to make up wild stories about guys falling over themselves to get to you in order to fake having some semblance of self esteem.
• dwccrew

  

  I think people don't like her not because of her looks (which there isn't much to like about those anyway) but because she is a self-absorbed bitch.
• thavoice

  Pretty conceited bitch.
  
  The one in the purple isnt too bad. I mean...after a few drinks, in a dark, smoky bar one may say 'she doesnt look too bad for an old woman'...but then probably would shank the bitch after she opened her mouth.
• dlazz

  Guys, you should probably be nicer. You barely know her!
  
  I'm sure she has a very charming personality.
• Belly35

  

  Are they brother and sister?