It could be ominous, but that doesn't matter if you actually have other motivations for participating. Do watchu wannado for you...um...dude.
I have to say I am glad I decided to participate before I heard that. They already had us fill out a "health habits" assessment for the medical insurance - you didn't have to fill it out, but those who didn't were subject to an increase in premiums. I hope that when they get around to raising premiums on people whose health habits scores were less than wonderful, they will take things like participation in this challenge into consideration.
people whose health habits scores were less than wonderful
It bugged me that I got a low score not so much because I have actual poor habits, but because I have the habit of weighing as much as I weigh.
It is a buggy system. I know there are people who weigh twice as much as I do who are healthier than me. It's just another form of discrimination that folks justify because some people are heavy due to bad habits. Recently I realized I was raised with it. My mom (despite being no skinny minnie herself) seems irredeemable. I'm trying very hard to overcome it.
We have something like that challenge at work -- you pick the number of minutes you exercise -- and then yo try and meet it . Twice I've gotten sick at t he end ( it is usually in Spring -- allergies get me). Unless your 'team' beats out every other team the only reward is betting you gaol. I am ok with it. and No they don't keep track.
Also this year if you joined a gym they gave yo a 50 dollar gift card.
A little more subtle approach
Wow. Someone just called and asked me if I want to get drunk with him.
Dude. Dude! Dude. Where do I even begin.
We spent about 15 hours together, you're 20 something years older than me, we're into very different life patterns, and even if we got along somewhat nicely then, that's really... I mean... what? I mentioned once, twice or fifteen times that I don't drink alcohol (with the exception of two drinks every 15 months or so, when I'm among dear dear friends and I forget how bad my body detests that shit). So... how many numbers you've dialed before mine?
So no, I won't get out and get drunk with you. The Willow in me is also very amused and almost flattered by the invitation. I do hope you'll get your shit together on someone else's shoulder (or someone's other body part that might actually be into this kind of activity with you).
But Dude. Dude. Dude. That's not the way to go with me.
Edit: for the record: I have no doubt the man meant well. I have every doubt that that kind of invitation would ever work on me to get out and get drunk.
how many numbers you've dialed before mine?
oh wow that is so astute. I wish I'd had you in my head when I was in my twenties.
oh wow that is so astute. I wish I'd had you in my head when I was in my twenties.
I didn't say it to him. Just understood it in my head during the talk. I was very kind, and emailed another guy both of us know to call him and check up on him.
A small part of me wishes I could be naive and pretend and take these kind of invitations at face value. I am in my 20s, and as far as I remember, I declined these kind of offers. I guess I'm a cold bitch, what can I say. I know where this kind of spontaneity leads, and it ain't pretty.
I was always all, "ooh, someone is paying attention to me!"
The small part of me which melted to think someone's actually calling to ask me that and thinks we'll be able to make our way out of it undamaged got very excited, I won't lie.
Luckily, it's a small, small, small part. I really do wish I could live in this kind of world. But we don't.
