” Did the Kumquat Fuel Her”? 🙄

… The other day…while minding to my own business… occupied buying produce from my friendly Turkish vegetable vendor, a young woman seeing my haul, asks me, “Do you know about the new diet”?

Huh? 😮

I’m puzzled at this stranger asking me this question.

“Do I look fat to you”? I peer at this girl …my face pink, with embarrassment, never-the-less. 😕

She is anorexia itself, fragile bloodless & is sucking on a singular kumquat sampled from the vendor’s pushcart.

The kumquat is her appetizer, entree and dessert… as she slowly & deliberately nurses on the opaque slimy fruit protruding from its pulled back rough peel.

“No, but I thought you’d be interested…”

(Why when I think I’m just right)! LOL!

“Missy, I have been more diets in my 83 years…than you have hairs on your blonde little head” I retort, annoyed. 😠

Imagine the nerve…then she goes on, & on, about her diet… naming each meal, with each fruit she’s feasted on.

“NO alcohol, nor any liquids for 2 weeks, only one fruit for each meal.

“And No water”? I ask, sarcastically.

“Absolutely NOT you get liquids from the fruit… that’s enough”! She explains all knowingly.

Wisdom from “Another Nut” walking the sidewalks of New York City that feels free to give me unsolicited advice…🤔

LOL!