Lisa and I were out shopping at Kohl’s yesterday and while browsing through some knit tops she indicated one of them and said,

“Eww, no.  I can’t wear circles.”  To which my curiosity got the better of me and I replied,

“Circles?  That’s horizontal stripes…”

Lisa:  *deep sigh-bit of an eye roll*  “They go all the way around and make a circle.  Makes me look and feel fat.  Not to mention dizzy.”

Quite frequently our conversations are reduced to this sort of analogy.  The scary thing is I knew right where she was coming from…