compliment like no other

The other day, I was in the middle of serious disussions on the industry and strategy and BS like that (As i have indiated already, thats the only way for me to stay balanced and keep goo gooing and ga gaing to Antara

Anyway, in the middle of this conversation, I let it slip that Antara came 6 weeks ago

My friend : " can we digress for a minute?"
Me: "Sure"
My friend : " Where in Bandra are you going to lose weight after delivery?"
Me: (confused) " Nowhere, I am not allowed to exercise until the end of 6 weeks" - (proceeding to go into too much detail as usual) " Since I had a c-section, I am not allowed to exercise - you see.............
My friend : (cutting me off politely)"Then, a special diet?"
Me: " Nope, not really" (more confused)
My friend : "The reason I ask is that my wife had our baby 4 months ago and is struggling to lose the pregnany weight - I could not have guessed that you are a recent mom............."
Me: " Oh! (blush), I guess I am just pure lucky! (on cloud nine!)

I pro.ceeded to stay on cloud nine for a few hours after that :-)

This was definitely a compliment like no other - Especially so after aunts and family kept looking at me int he early post delivery days and saying, yeah, it will take a while for that tummy to go - poor you, cant wear a tummy belt even, bcos of the c-section! Hope you dont get stuck with it! (Grrrrr!)

So the compliment from my friend was like sweet revenge :-)