Happy vegan life . . . .
is having my uncle (who is in charge of Christmas dinner this year) come up to me and ask if I can eat regular, store bought pasta and home made marinara if he doesn't put the grated parmesan in it. When he also found out I can eat Italian bread, he was ecstatic and laughed screaming: "You mean I have been eating vegan things for years without even knowing it?!"
The best part, is he tells me that he googled how to make a vegan stew, but it had so many foreign ingredients to him that he got scared and wanted to try something easier (awww! )
When he asked me about dessert, I said: "Oh, don't worry, I'll bring something!"
And then he told me, "Well I was thinking of getting some soy ice-cream and strawberries. Is that ok? I just kind of wanted you to have a holiday where all you had to bring was yourself!"
I almost melted with the kindness. I took him up on the soy ice-cream offer and thanked him! That was so sweet to me, especially since he's the one that gives me the most shit for being vegan :-P
Oh: and ANNOYING VEGAN LIFE IS:
Having a constable come into work to garnish a co-workers wages, and over hear a conversation my sister and I were having on how we don't understand vegetarians who still eat eggs. The guy turns around and goes "I totally agree!" Thats when someone goes: "Oh yeah, well she's one step further, she's vegan!"
I kid you not, thats when this gimoke turns around (now, keep in kind he didn't speak with this accent before) and says "Oh, so yer one of them veegans!? Where do you get yer protein? Thats, ok -- you have a nice complexion. Very shiny. You know, right after this I am going to "Insert mexican restaurant" and having a tostada, you know, the one with a lot of chicken!"
I said "great, you do that!" and when he walked out I said "Have fun having that heart attack!" and flipped him off. I wish I would have said something while he was still there, but I was just too shocked and taken a back, that I didn't know what to say.
Funny how he got all up on his high horse on how vegetarians shouldn't eat eggs or dairy, and when he found out I was vegan -- slammed me for doing just what he thought people should do. Just goes to show you ignorant people will argue with anything.
The best part, is he tells me that he googled how to make a vegan stew, but it had so many foreign ingredients to him that he got scared and wanted to try something easier (awww! )
When he asked me about dessert, I said: "Oh, don't worry, I'll bring something!"
And then he told me, "Well I was thinking of getting some soy ice-cream and strawberries. Is that ok? I just kind of wanted you to have a holiday where all you had to bring was yourself!"
I almost melted with the kindness. I took him up on the soy ice-cream offer and thanked him! That was so sweet to me, especially since he's the one that gives me the most shit for being vegan :-P
Oh: and ANNOYING VEGAN LIFE IS:
Having a constable come into work to garnish a co-workers wages, and over hear a conversation my sister and I were having on how we don't understand vegetarians who still eat eggs. The guy turns around and goes "I totally agree!" Thats when someone goes: "Oh yeah, well she's one step further, she's vegan!"
I kid you not, thats when this gimoke turns around (now, keep in kind he didn't speak with this accent before) and says "Oh, so yer one of them veegans!? Where do you get yer protein? Thats, ok -- you have a nice complexion. Very shiny. You know, right after this I am going to "Insert mexican restaurant" and having a tostada, you know, the one with a lot of chicken!"
I said "great, you do that!" and when he walked out I said "Have fun having that heart attack!" and flipped him off. I wish I would have said something while he was still there, but I was just too shocked and taken a back, that I didn't know what to say.
Funny how he got all up on his high horse on how vegetarians shouldn't eat eggs or dairy, and when he found out I was vegan -- slammed me for doing just what he thought people should do. Just goes to show you ignorant people will argue with anything.