A Wrinkle in Time?
On a recent visit to my dermatologist for the annual “freezing of the moles”, I was chilling out in the examining room awaiting the Doc accompanied by his faithful sidekick carrying the liquid nitrogen bottle. The walls were tastefully plastered with new posters hyping the latest and greatest in cosmetic dermatological procedures that promised to make everybody’s granny become Britney’s envy.
Casually giving them the disinterested once over I paused on one phrase, and then started laughing about the time Doc walked in. Infected by my laughter, he chuckled as he asked what was so funny. I pointed to one poster and asked “When did we stop calling them wrinkles and start calling them “expression lines?” Talking through choked laughter he said “Well, you know we’ve got to be politically correct these days. A few years ago we started calling them age lines, then maturity tracks, but now they are expression lines.”
After a good laugh, I asked him what they really were. With a shrug of his shoulders he drolly said “Wrinkles.” After another good laugh his assistant came at me with a footlong Q-Tip and the nitrogen bottle. That shut me up for a while. I’m sure I have some new expression lines to commemorate the occasion.
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I don’t have wrinkles either. And my hair is lightening due to being “chronologically challenged”. Help!
I had the oddest vision when I read about “the freezing of the moles”: dozens of little gentlemen in gray suits lifting their noses with dignity as they marched into the cryogenics chamber to be turned into The Wind in the Willows Memorabilia.
This is a new euphemism to me. Crabby Old Lady will undoubtedly have somethiing to say about it soon.
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