You know that old saying that everyone is famous in a small town? Well, I am here to tell you it is TRUE. And if you didn't happen to be born and raised in that small town, you are even MORE famous because everyone is nosy and curious about what the "foreigner" does. In this case, the "foreigner" is ME.
So at 8am this morning I got a phone call from my MIL. I went to the grocery store yesterday and someone she knows saw me there and saw me checking out. This person took it upon themselves to call Carol (my MIL) and ALERT her to the fact that I did not purchase any meat. She was just "concerned" that Mike and I were having "money problems" and couldn't afford to buy meat for our family and she was worried about "the poor children".
I didn't buy meat because I'M A VEGETARIAN! How she didn't know that I don't know. Lord knows the rest of the town does. Its just another thing that makes me "weird".
Then there are all the speculations and rumors going around about my health. According to the town gossip I've had everything from a brain tumor to cancer to the plague.
And did ya'll know that in the 8 years I have lived here I have YET to be spotted in one of the 1500 churches around here. MIL brought this to my attention. So I told her it was because I was too busy sacrificing animals and small children on Saturday nights and I was just too tired on Sunday mornings. (OK, I DO acknowledge that probably was not a nice thing to say on my part, but I was mad).
I am just tired of it all. No matter how much I watch what I say or do they still find something to talk about. I told Mike I am going to start sitting on the front porch in my bathrobe with curlers in half my hair and clown make up on and squirt everyone who comes near our yard with a water hose. They already think I'm crazy I might as well have some fun, right?