Looks like a lion with really great legs

You know how when you have curly hair you want straight and when you have straight hair you want curly?! Yes, it is true.  Well, I am one of the people who is blessed with curly hair and I am always trying to make it straight.  

A few years ago when I was teaching school I had done my hair curly and gone to work.  It must have been the first time for that school year that I had not spent 45 minutes trying to get my hair to give the illusion of straight and beautiful.  

One of the little boys in my class said to me:  "Teacher, you kind of look like a lion with that hairdo" Dead serious.  I think he was trying to give me a compliment.  Yes, a lion.  I looked like a lion. I obviously laughed it off.  This child was, after all, 7 years old.  However, I have never forgotten that comment and always look in the mirror when my hair is curly and think to myself "Do I look like a lion?!" Maybe I do, but it doesn't stop me from doing my hair curly every now and then and giving myself a break from the straightening routine.  

I don't know if anyone else gets really random "compliments" like I do, but in March I was running the Rex E. Lee Run at BYU and I got a compliment that is almost at the same place on the rating scale as looking like a lion.  

Legs picture compliments of my nephew on the beach.

 

 

 

After I had finished what had to have been the worst race of my life (seriously horrible - I walked in a 10k and didn't know how to handle myself with "the old flame" at the race) I was just visiting with a couple of friends when this girl, who was a total stranger came up to me and said to me:  "I know that this might be weird but I saw you before the race and while you were running and I just wanted to tell you that you have got really great legs" 

How would you respond to that?  I said thank you, but didn't really know what else to say. A few other friends heard the comment and I have been teased about it since.  

So, for the record I've got lion hair and really great legs.  

Amazing that I am not married with that on my resume.