Today's amusing conversation...

[the_tea_fairy]

12 year old boy: Miss, this is a weird question but do you live in [name of my town]?

My voice: Yes.

My brain: oh rat bags, why are you asking me? Why do you even know that?

12 year old boy: thought so. I saw you out running last night.

My voice: you should have waved!

My brain: oh! My! God! The shorts! I was wearing the tiny shorts! And a man's vest! And my hair was a state! And I think I was singing along to Jimmi Hendrix and I'm a skinny middle class white girl in terrible shorts and there is no way that can be anything but cringey... And the shorts, for god sake! I feel like a student saw me naked! Argh! Don't blush! Are the shorts WORSE than pants? They are so lurid! Oh hell.

12 year old boy: well I was going to shout, but I wasn't quite sure it was you.

My voice: next time wave. Did I look tired?

12 year old boy: nah, you looked happy and calm. But your face was like a tomato.

Keeps making me chuckle to myself.

[Dawn47 Graduate]

Ha ha ha ......that made me chuckle 😉😉

[Sandraj39 Graduate]

Fantastic! I work in a school too and these exchanges keep us 'young' (Just a figure of speech for me as I recently turned 50😯!) . Anyway, at least he didn't mention the shorts!!

[Maturelady Graduate]

Awe the innocence of kids. Made me chuckle.

[Noaky12 Graduate]

Love it. You can always trust kids for their honesty ☺

[the_tea_fairy Graduate]

He's a really lovely kid, warm and funny. I'd have minded more if he was someone else.

[AncientMum Graduate]

Excellent!! Love working in a school, no two days are ever the same

[Realfoodieclub Graduate]

Love it. Wear that colour with pride.

[Irishprincess Graduate]

Ha ha. Hilarious. As a 12 year old boy he could have said a LOT worse! Wear those shorts and the tomato face with pride.

[ancientrunner Graduate]

Brilliant - made me laugh out loud!!

[Windswept1 Graduate]

Love it.

[frannyfran Graduate]

Me think you gained some street cred there!

Happy running.

[Anaverageman Graduate]

love it... But you HAD the perfect ‘ out’ to the conversation when he said ‘ was it really you?’ lol but I guess you didn’t want to ‘ lie’ to a young kid. Although, you may WISH you had when he AND his mates turn up next time?

[Runon Graduate]

Fantastic. The gap between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us can be so incredibly wide. I think you have a fan. "Ah you should see our teacher - she's really fit and runs and can change colour..."

[ju-ju- Graduate]

brilliant!!! Dont let it put you off......

[Tomas Graduate]

Oh bless, what a nice kid. And what an uplifting story

[GoogleMe Graduate]

What a lovely boy!

One of my younger son's utterly, utterly stellar teaching assistants works in running gear. And one of the teachers stopped to talk to us as we arrived for something or other and he was in full cycling stuff going home. It is a great example of including fitness in your life. So you're not just doing this for you.

[blue-notes Graduate]

One of my nightmares... Once, when I was in the very early stages of C25K AND had just run up a hill AND was consequently feeling like a puffing tomato I met an ex-student. It was highly embarrassing, but at least he was polite enough not to stare. Oh, and yes, he certainly recognised me

[the_tea_fairy Graduate]

I don't really mind. I have a couple of runners in my form (and a couple of parents who run iron mans!!!) so they know I run because we compare training runs and injuries sometimes and yeah, I do think it's good for them to see being active as a normal thing to do as they grow up.

Blue-notes that sounds awkward but NOTHING can be worse than when I was just starting out and ran into a very lithe and gorgeous colleague who was gazelle-ing her way along the same path without even breaking a sweat. I was purple-faced and wearing a crop top with my heaving-for-breath milk-white stomach out and as I approached her, she shouted out 'hello' just as Laura said I was half way through. So I ignored her, turned around, and literally ran away!!! That was bad.

[GettingFitter Graduate]

Excellent tea_fairy made me laugh