Hey Good-looking....You must be dumb!!!

How many times have you heard that?....not many i am sure (as there are not many pretty people in this world!).........Sorry no offence intended!...

Its just that I am tired of being civil and nice to people who stereotype me just because I happen to look very pretty....(Look mister/missy....I am not bragging.....you can ask people who have seen me!...Ok.?...)

Things have always been this way right from my school days and college days as well....(ill leave that for later)........Recently in my new office.......During my initial days..the following incident happened.....I was in the rest room....and this girl comes upto me...and she is like"Hmmmm.......Have u done a diploma?...now i have to tell you the background story......i have given the CET for getting into my mba college...and am from open category (read Govt. Dalits)....so basically its a feat if you get into the second best college on the list......now my college also offered a diploma course which is not as (read nowhere near)....competitive.....(Hey people..cant a girl be honest?)......
So if people say have u done a diploma...i say "NO" (emphatically and i think quite animatedly too)I have done the MMS course(which is quite competitive to get into)......how can i not let people know that!....


Ok....back to my incident.... so this girl lets call her pUpa(hint..read between the lines)......
So pupa is like .....have you done your diploma....I was like NO.....I have done my MMS in finance....and went into the elaborate efforts to explain the difference......She seemed to be lost in some string of thought the whole time though...."Are you sure you havent done ....you havent done some diploma?"she asked...Did I hear "some "diploma....I was like MMS(you ass.....in my head obviously...)......Are u sure?.....Hmmm..I was like .I think i would know..........Are you sure you havent done a diploma......(She went on for like a good five minutes..)....Are you sure u havent done a diploma...from.......FrankFinnn....or flying Cats?....For a moment it did not sink in.........I was like Wha.........flying...Wha.......did i hear CATS?.....what ...come again......i...actually didnt understand......I just smiled and ...we then parted ways(well as much as we could given that we work sit in the same dept!).....


Ok...I came to my desk...I was like Flying ....wat.......cats..did she say cats....CATS?.......and then it hit me!..Eureka!.......She thought I have done some godforsaken Air Hostess course.......Is she mad?...i work for one of the top five Investment banks in the world.......I hAve done an mba in finance....and ya its MMS(had to say it!).........Its really not that hard to guess that well i am NOT an air hostess under all these circumstances...she was really insulting the HR of my firm by askin me such a (weird ) question..........


Then one more thing struck me...why am i getting worked up...Its actually a compliment.....she thinks I am quite pretty (not that i think air hostesses are. preTty(certainly not the ones i have seen...and ill not even get started abt the stewards..)...they are just assumed to be....but wait a minute.....why did she ASSUME i was DUMB?.(not that I associate dumbness with air hostesses....its just a general assumption i think!...)......well she couldnt logically or shouldnt logically think I was dumb cause i hadnt spoken to her or anyone really given that it was my second day at work......she assumed i was an air hostess. ..(well say that to a mathematician or a derivatives trader and youll know what a blunder she has made?..by assuming such a random thing.....)...assume...something so weird? (given the situation.....).......why....hmm...because i look good and dress well.......thats why?......


(Note: ...i do not believe in all this "shallow" looks talk...its just that i have been discriminated against and stereotyped ...so it has become an issue by default!)....

Ok....Going by her thesis....then do I ASSUME she is intelligent?(Hope u got the point)......Do I?.......Well...I dont think so....given her question(when everything else was pointing nowhere near(and this is an understatement!) any air hostess trainin or airhostess qualification...or the lack of it... )....I think I can safely assume otherwise.!!!!!......