What’s size anyways, right?!
I wrote about this on Facebook, the first part of the story that is, but then I went back to the sales lady so here’s the full story...
I was having a good day until in between coaching and meetings I ran into a store and randomly bought jeans.
"You're a large", the store lady said, "yes, definitely a large." ...so I bought a medium.
In Canada I’m a small or an extra small, in Korea I’m a “free size” or a medium, but how could I go from that to being a large?! I’ve never been a large in my life.
Turns out she was right... (what, are these children sizes?!)
I was so annoyed that she had suggested a large and how she had thrown in the words “yes, definitely” into the mix. I mean, what did she think I was?! I workout.
The fact that I was so annoyed got me curious though. What is size anyways and why do we become so fixated on it? The size of your jeans really isn’t a reflection or indicator of how healthy you are or aren’t. It’s just your body size.
Later tonight I returned and that sales lady greeted me with a I-knew-you’d-be-back kind of smile. "I told you you’d be a large!”, she said, “they are boyfriend style”, she added. Convinced that I wasn’t going to let this get me annoyed like it had before and realizing that size really is just nothing more than a number, or in my case a word, I decided to make light of the situation. The sales lady really didn’t care what size I was, she was only trying to give me a size that fit me right. Only I cared.
“Oh, then if that’s the case, if they’re boyfriend style, I’ll take an extra large… I don’t like small guys, I like the big boys!” …so I bought an extra large.
Turns out I actually bought an extra, extra large!!!
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