super size them?
before we begin, i preface with this note to disbelieving, darling joe: i know the truck drivers were approving, because they were delivering to the mom and pop korean place i picked up my salad at, and were complimentary. suggested i could stand in front of them in rain or shine. but i bet if the light was green they would have not been so kind. no worries, my ego is not that overinflated.
speaking of overinflated, today, with the five week and three day countdown on until we depart for canada, i headed to fortress, the local electronics chain (a la radio shack?) and purchased two portable dvd players. dad would have been thrilled, because i ordered them a while ago and they did not come in when they were supposed to, they gave me two extra batteries for free. tres tres good news.
this is the benefit of shopping at a chain store. i could have picked up the dvd players at any number of mom and pop shops that hong kong is famous for, but having a surfeit of children i wanted dvd players wtih external batteries that could be exchanged and replaced, allowing one to be charged while another was playing. i could have also purchased a local brand, a la shinko, but decided the philips was the best bet, because it has the 16 centimetre screen. and with three faces trying to get the best angle, 16 centimetres are better than the usual nine.
as i was lugging the bag to the bus stop, i walked past a mcdonalds. don’t get me wrong, i walk past mcdonalds all the time. and i notice them. i have kids, and this is hong kong. duh.
but i remembered this mcdonalds in particular because it was right near my gynaecologists office. and i remembered being in his office and right before leaving it, he would always caution me to eat my 4,000 calories per day. at least one mcdonalds meal a day, he would caution. at least one.
i remembered charles and i wondering if nutritionists couldn’t see any benefit in eating mcdonalds meals, why women expecting multiples were encouraged to fast food. does that make any sense? even in the post SUPER SIZE me era, they still advocate it.
i dunno.
as laughable as it sounds, i did have good sized kids, though.
