The Other Woman has just been promoted to Second Dan at Hapkido.
She's trained in this Korean martial art for 13 years and she's come through a badly broken arm to reach this latest stage in her journey. I thought the grading where she was presented with her belt would be quite moving and I did feel a few teary moments. But it also just seemed right that she was getting a thing she's consistently worked for. I was dead chuffed for her.
Even better, though, was a story involving the Other Woman appearing on a radio show where she was being interviewed in a pre-record and she was asked a question off-script.
Asked about what the kindest thing she'd ever done involved, she honestly said that she once shared a chocolate bar with a friend. If you know the Other Woman and her obsessive love of all things chocolate, you'd fully understand that this registers as high as charitable giving and being a blood donor on her scale of random kind acts.
But realising that this made her sound like the embodiment of selfishness, she then panicked and added 'Oh! But I do try to approach every day with a smile!'
This is perhaps the greatest lie my beautiful but acid-tongued friend has ever told. It kept me and several other mutual friends amused for the rest of the evening.
So I may now have to bow to my best friend as she is a senior belt. But I will also keep myself entertained by doing so with a massive smile. Because I like to approach every bow to my Other Woman with a smile. I may even buy her a Little Miss Sunshine t-shirt.
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