Pretty Girls

(from 3 July 2006)

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There's this impish, funny looking old man who comes to Pick n Save a couple times a week. He has this sort of game he plays where when he comes in he asks the simple question "How are you?" When you answer "good" he brightens up and says "Ah ha! You mean pretty and good!"

At first I thought he was just some coot who liked to make the girls blush. You know, an old man who hits on every woman he sees because he's got nothing to lose. But then I got to talking to him and he told me that he had 10 children (he corrected me when I said "kids"). He said that his daughters used to ask if they were pretty or not and he would tell them, "There's no such thing as an ugly girl. There are pretty ones, there are very pretty ones, and YOU are one of the prettiest."

What a great thing for a father to tell his daughters, no?

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I've still got to think of a title for this journal. Maybe.