Hi everybody. You’re all looking good today!! I’m looking at you and I know what you’re thinking (pause): She’s short.
Personally I don’t think I’m short!! Well, Ok… Not that short, but when ONE OUT OF TWO PEOPLE YOU MEET tells you, you are short. You tend to think: ok I’m short (with a sob)
To tell you the truth, I don’t like it! And I don’t like people talking to me and lowering their head down to hear me. My friends keep taunting me about it: Hey Shorty!! Why don’t you come here and jump a little…Let’s see how high you will go!
Not only my friends, but also my family keeps torturing me about it. My dad introduces me to people: this is my girl, she will never “grow up”. My mom likes it because people think she’s young: her girl is still in high school or something. Even my aunts give me hard time about it. One day I was having lunch with one of my aunts and my cousins when she started talking about marriage then looked at me and said: wanna get married, GET SOME HIGH HEELS! I said: Aunt, I don’t like high heels, and I don’t care if people think I’m SHORT. She then pulled my plate away and said: OK stop eating, we don’t need you to be FAT too!!!
Then one of my cousins THANKFULLY tried to change the subject: Hey Marwa how’s that Chinese course going? I said: oh it’s going fine, I have an exam next week. Then my aunt turned her chair towards me and bended forward, looking at me with contempt and said: Why the hell are you learning Chinese? Are YOU going to China??!! I said: well, may beee, I don’t know, Christopher Columbus never knew he’d go to AMERICAAAA.
She then settled back in her chair and looked at me with a sly smile and said: Ok may be you should go….you’d mingle easily there with people as short as you are. I said calmly: Come on aunt, what’s wrong with me learning something NEW. She said: then consider learning being a girl and get some high heels.
When it was time for me to go home and as I turned towards the door she called one of her little kids: Hey Ahmad, go unlatch the door for your cousin, she won’t be able to reach it.
I yelled: AUNT, come on, I am not that short and I CAN reach that damn door latch. She looked at me with the same sly smile, rolled her eyes and said: YEEAAAAaaaAAA…on tiptoes!!!
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February 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Nice work.
(Rob Hopcott’s complete comments can be read here.)
February 19th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Am I the 1st to comment .. an honour …
Since English isn’t my native language I don’t see any mistakes as far as I’m concerned … so let me talk about the content .. I LIKE IT .. so funny .. but it’s funny in the natural sort of way .. not the artificial cold way .. and the way u used facts from ur personal life in the story is so professional .. well done Marwa
February 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
oops .. i didn’t see Rob’s comment .. sorry
February 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am
great work!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
well done girl , i hope that i commented before Ali
February 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
wow Marwa this is great
I like it so much, I wish that someday you will perform it yourself. Never ever stop writing and keep the flow of funny stories coming.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Outstanding Marwa, I liked it already since last time in the office!
February 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Oh, and I second your aunt’s opinion getting high heels
February 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hello Marwa, My Dear Friend…… I’ve read that story as well and I can see that you are really talented with writting stories and short storties………Your persistence and hard work will definitely enable you to be a successful famous writter one day……
Way to go Marwa!!!!!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
it’s really good article,but you know what,you’re not that short,yeah really,ooh i like short people anyway:)
February 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Go get them shorty… Your friend shervesky
February 21st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Well done MIRO!!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Great work Morwa. You are really talented.
I feel as if I read true story
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Ohh great to see all these comments, Thank you guys!!:D
February 25th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Lovely piece. Throughly enjoyed reading it.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I can relate myself, being i’m not too tall, not too big, or not too fat
another great piece that i enjoyed
and kudos on learning chinese, although why? comes to mind here
i’m self learning jap, which i find it fits my personality and definitely much easier than chinese
looking forward to the next post