"No, Thank God."
I've responded with "Now why would I do that?" and laughing.
I've definitely responded like this to the marriage question, but generally only when I felt the person was one to use my yes/no answer as some sort of benchmark of success.
Luckily, one of my aunts thinks I shouldn't get married because it's totally bourgeois and archaic and why would any woman really want to?
I like "that's an awfully personal question" with a smile. It even says none of your business, but delivered in the right tone, it's disarming. Then, immediately change the subject. If they persist, then you can be rude. Cause they started it.
I like this for when you don't want to be all aggressive about it.
For the "boyfriend" question, I generally reply "I'm not seeing anyone right now."
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
Answers I've used:
"Why? Are you asking me out?"
"I never make plans that far in advance."
"One in every port."
And, my favorite, used for all occasions when I want to be kind but get the MYOB across:
"Can you keep a secret?"
--"yes!"
"So can I". And smile sweetly.
Buffistas have answers to everything--Wolfram even has the "in Hebrew" answer!! Thought I like the "his wife hates when I call him that" one as well. Heh.
The Grandparent thing is unnerving a bit. The last time we had a talk about it, they told me I had to name my daughter Celeste. It's some kind of family name.
...pretty, at least, but a bit premature, eh?
My grandmother couldn't keep up the "how's your social life" ficton. She'd ask the question in just that way, and I'd answer however I wanted, and then she'd say, "you know that's not the social life I'm asking about!"
Hah! Nice try, Grandma!!
poo - I bought new red lipstick at lunch and it is way too orange. stupid impulse buy.
Also, my lunch, not filling me up.
poo - I bought new red lipstick at lunch and it is way too orange. stupid impulse buy
see if you can take it back, a lot of places are allowing that now.
Going to Book Expo tomorrow. Should I bring a really HUGE bag for which to stuff in as much free crap as possible? Or is that unclassy? Medium size bag?
it's just drugstore lipstick, I doubt it:
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third row from bottom, 3rd from left. does the 5th from left look less orangey?
NYistas, mark your calendars!
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