I'll Try Not to Twist it!

So, not to get it twisted: but some people are just rude!

Well ladies, is it my imagination or do we not have an unwritten rule that says we don't tell other ladies that they have put on weight?! I mean particularly if they are not part of your inner caucus? Yes? Well that is what happened to me today! So this is the context, I'd gone over to the building of my customer for a meeting, it just so happens that the customer also used to be my employer so j know a good few people there! This is how I came to be talking to this lady. The conversation went a bit like this:

Me: hi Diane 

Diane: hello nike how are you? I hear that you went to Nigeria 

Me:uh -no I was home though, for two weeks! 

The chit chat went on inanely like that for a couple of minutes and in between I had mentioned that I was going for the tube, as it was quicker and I did not have the time for the luxury of walking. I'd also been to talk to another colleague. 

Diane: oh look, being over there (as in having moved to Lockheed Martin) suits you,

me: oh thank you.

Diane: well I mean you have put on weight and you should be walking back to your office!  i was actually quite dumbfounded at this stage because the conversation was so random, its not as if sh is a lady I would seek out, and to be honest my inner bitch wanted to say "well excuse me you are no   Naomi Campbell but hey ho, had to let that one go and,  if It  had stopped there then maybe i would not have been so irritated. Diane asked me if they had found the missing Chibok girls and when I said know her response was well the parents must be complicit as if it were her daughter sh would be out there looking for her. I tried to explain the circumstances under which these girls were taken, but in that moment i felt that I was talking to an ignorant lady and that I would be wasting my breath! I did say to her that its very easy for her to say that sat in her Cosy office in the western world of freedom, but when you are living under the veil of Boko Haram or ISIS it is  not quite as straightforward as that! I think what I found offensive about this whole conversation is the randomness of it!

When I mentioned it to a couple of friends, they to were perplexed slightly and we could only conclude ignorance or that she clearly wanted to get a rise out of me!