an oddly amusing conversation

[fox]

a member of my section, on the steps on the way in to rehearsal:  Good evening.
me:  Hi.
her:  Wow -- you've lost a lot of weight!
me:  Well ... yes, I have.
her:  But you haven't been sick or anything, have you?

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[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

How nice, and how smart of her, that she did not presume anything. I wonder if she's one of the many folks who figured out that weight loss was not always cause for congratulations by congratulating someone who had become a lot thinner...and then found out in that embarrassing way that they had gotten so much thinner because of chemo or something.

I personally much prefer her sort of approach to talking about a weight loss than the automatic presumption that all weight loss is good, or even something that a person wishes to talk about.