So as I was leaving the grocery store last night, I passed a man seated at an outdoor table, talking on his cell phone. All I caught of his conversation was, “So does she look like Pamela Lee? Oh, not that small yet?”
What?! Of the many adjectives I could apply to Pamela Lee, small ain’t one of them. And what’s this “yet” business?
I await the theories of the Teeming Millions.
Also, if you have any other context-less tidbits, post 'em here and we’ll see if we can figure them out.
Maybe they know somebody who looks like Pamela Lee, but is still losing weight to get down to her overall size?
Or had breast reduction surgery, but not down to the size that Pamela’s were after she got unplanted?
Out-of-Context Tidbit #2:
A girlfriend once said to me,
“You’d make an ugly woman.”
Gotta be the breast reduction thing. Unless, of course, he was talking about someone with really big hair that is just trying to get down to trailer-park-trashy hair?
I’m going to ignore the fact that I’m currently in a heated discussion in another thread about other people’s cell phone conversations…
He was probably talking to someone about a girl on a diet or something. “…Look like Pamela Lee?” probably meant “Did she lose weight yet?”
Here’s another one…
“Walk over to the far wall. Okay, do you see a switch? Flip that on and it should open up the whole thing for you. <pause> Okay, now do you see any birds? Make sure there aren’t any birds. <pause> Okay, now you use the stick to clean it off. Everything cool? Okay, bye…”
Any indicator what this conversation could be about? I thought maybe this woman talking on her cell phone could be giving instructions to her cleaning lady on how to clean an automatic skylight or something, but maybe there’s another explanation. Anyone?
Maybe the woman in question had liposuction, and they were talking about the size of her waist. Or maybe she had breast reduction surgery, and in comparison, would make Pamela Lee look small. Or maybe a nose job.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the breast reduction thing. I guess that would make sense, if he was talking about a woman who used to have enormous boobesses. What a pefectly natural thing to discuss, loudly, in a public place.
Ethilrist, did your friend just out with that comment? Good lord. Maybe she was reflecting to herself how masculine and manly and chiselled your rugged good looks are. Some people have features that look good in one gender, but don’t translate to the other.
THespos, I wonder if she was a zoo employee or something, but right now I can’t think of anything that can really be cleaned off with a stick. Wait! Could she have been talking about an outdoor pool? One that has a device that will automatically roll back the cover? It could be that birds (ducks, maybe) like to get under the cover and into the water. But still, there is the issue of the stick. Intriguing.
There is the possibility he was talking about nothing more than breast enlargement, depending on his intonation.
I’ve known several people (myself included) who use ‘yet’ in the sense of ‘still’. He might have meant that despite the enlargement, her breasts were still ‘too small’ by his standards.
So, if you follow that, the conversation could have been something like :
Other End : Yes, she went and got her boobs done.
Man : So, does she look like Pamela Lee?
Other End : She’s a C-cup now.
Man : Oh, not that small yet?
Of course, beadalin will probably tell me this wasn’t his intonation at all, since the other explanations seem more likely.
(and just for the record, I think a C is pretty large).