Current location: Starbucks Coffee Talk

I was sitting next to this cute gal in Starbucks and she slaps out this India travel book. I said don't do it, just kidding. Then I said are you going for work or yoga? She said work; she is a nurse working with a plastic surgery unit for kids. I was like, oh that is great, wanting to show my knowledge of kid plastic surgery I say, like harelip surgery... She (holds back a cringe quite like just one fingernail hits the chalkboard) musters out a yes.. cleft lip and palate surgery. I ask, oh is that no longer PC? I really did not know. She said YES! Oops. I told her I did not say Retarded anymore (did I just say that), she smiled and said, That is really good, you know, like you would be proud of a kid... I told her I was from a small town and that my parents still think Oriental is PC but I was working on them... Side note: Wikipedia does not have a Harelip page, this is what it says. Cleft lip and Palate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Harelip)
So really when older people say something that makes you cringe they may really mean in their hearts something way better than what they grew up hearing and they think they are PC, I do believe that. It is just that somewhere along the line they stopped getting the news of what was PC, just like they stopped buying fashionable clothes or like they keep getting that shampoo-set every-single-w eek at the beauty shop where my mom has worked for the last 33 years. As for me I am not sure what happened, why I never got the, Do not say Harelip anymore memo after all these years. I have no excuse like being old or unfashionable, do I?
Back to India I warned her that she should go in with an open mind, but to expect some lemons along the way, and it would be up to her to turn them into lemonade... although that lemonade may deliver acute infectious bacteria to your intestinal tract... And let me tell you there is nothing cute about acute infectious bacteria!