absolutely true conversation:

[fox]

boy with clipboard, approaching me as i walk up cornmarket street with obvious don't-talk-to-me purpose:  Excuse me, are you a vegetarian?
me, carrying on walking:  Nope.
boy with clipboard, as i pass by without even stopping:  You look like a vegetarian.

i'm going to choose to believe it means "i notice that you have long straight hair and are not wearing any makeup, which could i suppose make you some sort of leftover hippie-type person, and in my desperation to get someone to sign my petition i'm going to equate 'hippie-type person' with 'vegetarian', hey, where are you going?"  because otherwise, i'm not sure what "you look like a vegetarian" means, when said to someone wearing a leather jacket.

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

because otherwise, i'm not sure what "you look like a vegetarian" means, when said to someone wearing a leather jacket.

[snickers]

"You could stand to gain some weight," maybe? Or maybe just "You make eye contact with people with clipboards"?

The kidlet's kindergarten teachers were a married couple, both vegans. Very nice people. Painfully skinny. One night I dreamed they'd spent a year eating steak in Argentina, and had come back home all plump and sleek and rosy.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

"You could stand to gain some weight," maybe?

[snort] UNtrue.

"You make eye contact with people with clipboards"

but i don't!