Toh-MEH-toe or Toh-MAH-toe? 7 July 2009
Posted by Anonymously Secret in Posts about the mysterious AnnSecret, Posts that I attempt to be humorous, Posts that are written when I have PMS.Tags: anon, anonymous, anonymously, Anonymouslysecret, blog, blogger, blogging, blushing, conditions, disease, flush, fun, funny, hate, humor, humour, life, personal, pink, random, redness, ridiculous, rosacea, skin, teenager, thoughts, tomato
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I totally love that tomato question!
Right. Back to the main point.
Just to clear some misunderstandings, that title is VERY relevant! It has got something to do with me, but before I can get to that part of the story, I must tell you a little more about me.
(ALERT: Beware of PMS-ing pubescent teenager below.)
Anyway…
I have always wondered, pondered and pestered my mother about this ‘curse’. (Well okay, it’s not as bad as it sounds.) I have this weird disease condition of blushing whenever I feel shy, pressured, or embarrassed. I know some of you are thinking, who doesn’t? Yes, everyone blushes. But how many of you actually suffer from excessive blushing due to laughing, smiling or without any reason? Not many I’m sure.
It has happened many times before in school, outings, family reunions… you name it!
One minute I would be enjoying my time and the next, someone would go, “Oh my god! Why is your face so red?!” and sure enough EVERYnosyONE in the room would turn to look at my face. As if things couldn’t get any worse, I blush EVEN REDDER PINKER when I am pressured by those stares and that would lead to my embarrassment and thus, BLUSHES EVEN MORE!
Heartless people. Like staring at an UFO or a giant talking zit on my face, they stare at my red as a ripe tomato face (Hence, the title) as if it was an exotic and soon-to-be extinct phenomena that occurs once every light years. At least glance and look away, but NO, one girl turns her head and the rest will follow like it was a game of Simon Says. And it gets better, I immediately get bombarded by, “Wow [Insert my name here], your face is so RED.” I do not need you to remind me that! Even if I can’t see my own face at that moment, I can at least feel the heat on my face thanks to your point-blank stares!!!
It had happened so many times that it’s beginning to get cliche.
The totally mean, exaggerating and despicable remark up-to-date is, “Can I eat you!?? Your face is like an apple!” When facing with completely unreasonable people who would say things like this, it’s best to just look at them blankly as if they’re speaking gibberish in a completely unintelligible language, then look away ignorantly as if to say, I’ve decided to ignore you because you’re absolutely insignificant and inferior to me. So please continue yapping away eventhough I’m too occupied with more useful things than to listen to you.
I guess aside from the very annoying stares and mean remarks, I got some awkward but nice compliments like, “Your face is so pink, it’s cute.”
I suppose blushing is triggered by our emotions and feelings. I only get really pink when I am laughing. But, it occurs randomly when I am thinking deeply about something too.
I normally try to control my emotions but sadly, sitting beside my hysterical laughing hyena best friend does not help my situation much.
I’ve tried Googling about it and I found out about Rosacea. Typically, it is a skin condition that begins with redness of the areas of the face along with some other symptoms such as acne and pimples.
So yeah. I MAY have rosacea. The next time I get stared at, I’m gonna say, “I have a skin disease call rosacea. It’s an illness. And it’s rude to stare at sick people. Didn’t your mother teach you that? I’m telling your mum that you’re being rude to the sick and the weak! You’re discriminating against the underprivileged and you’re a threat to humanity!!!”
Lol okay, maybe I exaggerated a little :P
~ Anonymously Secret
toe-meh-toe for me, thank you very much…
Got a bit of an edge going there in that last paragraph- thanks for the PMS alert.
Can’t you just tell them to *f* off? Of course not….
Df! It’s 6.30am there right now! What are you doing at this kind of time!??! Is it because of work? You have to get up so early for work? Awww… sad for you.
I would like to tell them to ‘f*** off’ too but that wouldn’t be appropriate because being vulgar only makes you look dumber. In my case, I can’t swear right but I can type it out. So major disadvantage for me.
You’re welcome. Girls with PMS should always come with a warning :)
Yeah, I use ‘toe-meh-toe’ too. Or is it ‘toh-meh-toe’???
or toh-MEH-toe
yes ma’am it’s 7:11 AM. I get up at 5:30 so I have time to do my blog and my 30 minutes, at a minimum of writing before heading to work. My writing coach feels I spend too much time doing just this…. writing in other people’s blogs but I love it and feel compelled to check in on my friends.
As for the foul language, there is some satisfaction to be had in taking the higher road.. but some days!
Have you seen the movie Fried Green Tomatoes? There is a scene where the woman is pissed off at someone for taking her parking spot.. she’s “on edge”… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZhmZxPWni0
She takes on a “Warrior” attitude… perfect for your pms condition.
If the link won’t open then search: Fried Green Tomatoes, Towanda…
Your writing coach should just let you do whatever you want. This blog would be totally empty without The Delicate Flower in here!
That woman is VERY SASSY despite the fact that she’s older than those 2 sluts! Too bad my speaker is not working so I can’t hear anything.
I should take on a ‘Warrior’ attitude too. And then, maybe I can dump a trash can onto that girl who wants to eat my face. I even have a plausible excuse for it: I’m PMS-ing!
I thought it was Toe MAY Toe.
kick me.
It does sound like rosacea. I don’t know if there’s any treatment for it but I read somewhere in Oprah (Yeah, kick me again. I was looking for inspiration!!) that one of the ladies got her face zapped with a laser…
*AnnSecret kicks spamwarrior* There you have it! Enjoy the free kick.
Yup, there are treatment for it but I don’t think I am that desperate for the cure yet.
(Let’s drop the tomato thing already. Everyone seems to have their own answers. Hmph!)
Yeah, you have to be pretty desperate to want to zap your face with a laser… owie. That or the poor woman was tired of putting up with the pressure from all her friends who worked at Oprah’s magazine. Her friends were constantly pointing it out to her and telling her to please get something done about it.
BS.
*sigh*
It’s toe-meh-toe for me too. Seriously, I love the way you write. I think it’s very rude for someone to point this out. Unless of course you’re getting sunburned and someone is just warning you. I’m with the F-U answer.
Thank you for the nice complient Joy! I love the way you write too. I love your blog actually! Especially the daily jokes!
Yes, I have some concerned friends and I appreciate them very much. Thank you for the advice, I’ll seriously consider telling them to, “Fuck off!”
My face gets so red whenever I exercise, except around my mouth and eyes, which stays as white as white can be. Everyone always points this out to me and it gives me a very good reason (I think) never to exercise!
Ohhh… it’s the opposite for me. When I exercise, I become really pale. Almost as pale as a ghost. My friends also finds this creepy and also tells me never to exerise!
toe-mah-toe for me. I have a similar thing, when I laugh, it sounds like I am having a heart attack, I mean it is this sound like an almost hee haw, and it is really loud. I am also a guy who laughs allot, I love comedy and humor, in a movie theater I laugh so loud that other people actually get upset at me.
Toh-MAH-toe. The British way of pronouncing?
Hmmm… I don’t laugh loud but I do certainly get very red when I laugh. So red that some rude girl can actually claim that she wants to eat me.