Blasphemy
“And the toddler’s mother, as she filmed the scene, laughed and laughed.I didn’t think it was funny. I kept thinking, Shit, that lion wants to eat that kid’s face. But, yeah, yeah, laugh at the lion. Laugh at the apex predator trapped behind glass.I was only at the zoo because I was trying to impress a woman who made balloon animals. She worked part-time near the primate enclosure, but I met her when she worked my niece’s birthday party at the local community center.Her giraffes were great; her ...elephants were passable; her tarantulas looked like tarantulas so nobody wanted them.She made fifty bucks for each party she worked. The zoo paid her minimum wage plus commission. But who comes to the zoo for balloon animals? If you’re going to buy something for a kid at the zoo, then you’re going to get a stuffed animal.So she was a beautiful woman with an eccentric skill that was financially unsustainable.I liked her well enough to think about being in love with her. We’d been on two dates.Later that afternoon, over coffee, halfway through our third date, she told me I had a great face but weighed thirty pounds too much.Get skinny, she said, like we could wear each other’s jeans, and then maybe I’ll have sex with you.I knew I’d never be thin enough.MoreLess
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