Well, I must have had many medical moments in the past 10 years because I don't know anybody in the street and when they come up to me and go Hi, I have had to learn a response as if I know them.

I just go "Oh, hi, how are you??" works every time.

I don't know these people. But they sure know me. This has been going on since I'm 47. I mean, I do know my neighbors, and everybody around here, but sometimes when I'm some blocks away, a person will recognize me and go "oh, Melody, how have you been, and I can look at that person till I'm blue in the face, and well, let's just say thank goodness I learned how to put a smile on my face, and I say "well, hi there, how are you?" and I keep walking. Do you know how many times I want to stop and say "refresh my memory, who are you??" I haven't got the balls.


Oh, something funny happened this morning at Dunkin Donuts. Alan and I go there usually, and one of my neighbors around the corner, well, she runs in and brings breakfast home.

Today, she spots us, runs in and sits with us and Alan is just staring at her and I couldn't understand why he looked so perplexed. She's a little bit of a thing, 57 years young, 4 feet 11 inches tall and wears a children's size 3 shoe. She put her little foot next to Alan's shoe boot and we all had a laugh.

So after she left, Alan looks at me and says "Mel, I don't understand something?" Isn't she the same woman who said hello to us the other day?" and I said "Yeah, you know her (and I said her name). Alan says "but today she had teeth in her mouth". I almost popped my low-carb bagel out of my mouth". I laughed so hard. He said "she didn't have any teeth the other day". I said 'Alan, haven't you ever heard of false teeth"??? You should have seen the expression on his face!!!

He went 'SHE HAS FALSE TEETH????

That's my hubby!!! lol