Trouble in Paradise
Interrobang
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apparently I look like a model?
If you know me IRL you know this is not true. I'm 5'4" and built kinda like that girl from Mad Men.
However, I eat lunch probably 3 times a week at a little cafe across the street with delicious soup, and have gotten pretty familiar with the people who work there. Today one of the girls brought me my soup and said, "This is kind of awkward but ... have you ever modeled?"
She was so nervous, the poor girl, but apparently she's a photographer on the side and wants to take portraits of people to build her portfolio. So I might do it for fun, let's hope she's not a psycho waiting to chop me up into bits.
Does this count as free stuff?
Re: apparently I look like a model?
That definitely counts as free stuff.
That's better than free stuff because free stuff is confusing sometimes. Sometimes people give it to you to make you go away. This was just because you're pretty.
ETA: That sounds really bad. Because obviously there are more important things than being pretty. But I fail to put what I am thinking in to words right now. Something about how you have a better idea of the motivating factors for this one. People generally don't try to take pictures of people they don't genuinely like.
YES!
That would have made my day. At the very least, she finds you interesting enough to photograph.
You absolutely look like a model!
And yes it counts as free stuff!
I'm pretty sure I tell you how gorgeous you are like 50% of the time I see you, so hopefully you don't think I'm going to chop you up in little bits! You DO look like a model and that's really cool that she approached you!
ALSO. How did it go last night?????
Free stuff! Yay! LOL.
BBE, I do think you're going to chop me to bits and put me in soup. I really do. It keeps me awake at night.
Aaaaand ... last night, SHE WASN'T THERE. So I went to the Portland Public Market to buy sour pickles because it was the worst workday ever and I had no yoga clothes with me. Then I went home and watched Grimm. Just really awesome life choices all day yesterday.
She should be there tonight. I need help with the tax forms, it's been almost 6 years since I filled one out and I feel like a dumbazz even looking at them.
So this is random, but I know you live near me (through Beebee and the local).
Do you work DT? I do. Now I am wondering where you get soup. I am hoping it's my favorite place, initials CM, which has great soup and is little.
Free stuff! Because you are PRETTY!
Note that it is coming from a woman and not a man, so according to that lady, she probably DOES want to chop you to bits because she actually hates you because you are prettier than she it. HTH!
Jaylea you really have to come to book club one of these days so you can meet Interro!
I KNOW! I do. It's the Tuesday thing. That's H's longstanding guys' night out.
I know...we have another girl who is a regular that can no longer do Tuesdays, I'm thinking this month I'll propose a vote to potentially switch it to Thursdays. That'd work, right??
It would!
Muddled, she very well might be jealous and planning to put me IN THE SOUP next week!
I don't
I work a few towns north and live a few more towns north ... but now I want to know about this great soup place! We definitely should go to book club sometime at the same time! 
You have tried the one in the market, yes? That place is the best.
But the other one is the place BBE and I met for lunch. Good stuff!
Oh yum, that place was so good. There's an Italian place downtown I have been wanting to try, they are always booked solid for dinner but their lunch looks good. I've been thinking, once it's nicer outside, perhaps you'd like to play hooky and take a long lunch with me??
Interro would be welcome but she'd prob have to talk a half day to get down and back, lol.
That's really funny, Interro! It's probably because you're so gorgeous and you look all cosmopolitan.
The same thing happened to me once, but much more embarrassing. I was at the grocery store, I hadn't showered in at least 2 days, I was wearing scrubby clothes and hungry, and the check-out woman asked "Are you a model?"
She had a funny accent and I thought she said "Are you married?" so I was like, "Yes, I am!"
And then she was like, "Oh, wow, you look like a model!"
Then I got all embarrassed because I pretty much told a stranger I'm a model. And I'm definitely not!
the one that begins with P? They are awesome. There's a goat cheese ravioli dish that's phenomenal.
So, yes.
Yessssssssssssssss.
I would have typed more S's but I got tired. Clearly because I haven't eaten any ravioli today!
I totes would. UNLESS some of my recent efforts pay off and put me in a Portland office!
If I ever write that $*(&)#$@ cover letter. What's a good way to say "I've never done this exact job but I kick azz at every job I ever do so you should totally hire me anyway".