Was reading a fellow blogger's entry on her encounter at the gym and man o man, so conniving and judgemental that bugger was.

On that note, lemme share something...

I have encountered plenty of blunt beings. Straighforward attitude i can handle, but being blunt a.k.a rude is simply unacceptable. Come on now, u can point it out without actually hurting anyone's feelings.

I remember vividly one of my many encounters (this one in a busy shopping mall), some years ago. Wrong approach from the start. A salesperson touched my right arm, caught me unaware of her presence and whispered to me,

'Girl, you want to loose weight? I have this good cream that can make you look slim and pretty'.

Tell me how to react to that?

I brushed her hands off and told her,

'No thank you. I'm happy being fat.'

Of course she persisted and continued with the 'its not healthy, you'll get a lot of sickness' speech to the point where all i hear were 'bla bla bla'.

The next thing i did was shut her voice out, laugh away and walked off...while she was still bla bla bla-ing.

Now that was not funny.