i have decided i'l be an agony aunt. not that i am not one already, but i have decided to go professional.
three life-altering years as an elementary teacher has taught me all i need to know about human nature. plus, quick thinking, decision making, personality analysis by just looking at the twitching of a nose or the flicker of an eyelid, pronouncing the final word and succintly summing up a situation are all now second nature. i am perfect agony aunt material.
i dont see how any self-respecting newspaper or magazine can get a better deal. on top of all my other qualifications for the job, i have one more. i can supply the question as well ! two for the price of one.
Q.
dear agony aunt,
i suspect my husband is having an affair. he comes back from work very late, and smiles at me! he also has the smell of another woman all over him. what should i do? should i just confront him that i am wise to his villany?
mrs. suspicious
A.
dear mrs. suspicious,
how can you be so certain that there is another woman involved? if it makes you feel any better (then again, it might not), it could be someone of an entirely different persuasion. anyway, why not look at the silver lining? atleast now he smells good when he comes back home.
hey saki, that's a very nice pic for your blog title. did you do it yourself? i knew you were a bit of a closet poet; are you a closet artist too?
ReplyDeletebtw,i think you mean St. Joseph of Cupertino, patron of last-minute mugpots like me, of the next post. very useful indeed to know him. i've passed most of my exams with his help :-)
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ReplyDeletethe picture is rather nice. not mine, i'm afraid, though i am something of a closet artist too. it is something of a found picture. i'd really like to credit the artist, but have no clue now where i came across it in the first place.
ReplyDeletei guess i did mean st.cupertino. i have received some of his graces as well. now i know whom to thank for those close shaves.
do you by any chance know who the patron saint for irredeemable absent-mindedness might be? i badly need his/her help.
if you exhibit adequate amounts of irredeemable absent-mindedness in your life, we could recommend your name in the next list of saints. and make you the the patroness of irredeemable absent-mindedness.
ReplyDeletedid you ever find "patroness" oxymoronish?
patron= father
"ess" = feminine
hohum. that means one has to go and die to get to be a saint? all that bother for a halo?
ReplyDeletei do exhibit copious amounts of irredeemable absent-mindedness already. i think all of you should go right ahead and anoint me already.
n i am very liberated - no 'essess' for me, oxymoronish or otherwise.