"'Cause you were all yellow"

This evening--bopping down the street from my office to the chi-chi grocery store by the bus stop--a man strolling by said, "Well, yellow is your color. . . . cute legs, too."

I had on yellow tights and a yellow scarf with white polka dots.

There was a time when I would have been outraged by his comments and condemned him as an objectifier, wielding his "male gaze" like a weapon. But, now I'm just happy someone noticed the effort I'd made to try to look cute. (And, I'm glad he didn't add, "You're kind of squat, aren't you? And, what's with the huge calves?")

I just said, "Thank you" to both comments and kept on walking. He didn't mean any harm. Besides he was old enough to be my dad....or, oh, yeah...my husband!