Fun & Famous
THE STRUGGLE OF THE ‘RESTING BITCH FACE’
Can I please take you guys back to this morning? I was walking from the subway stop to the office. Justin Timberlake's ‘can't stop the feeling’ was blaring out of my earphones; IN LOVE with Justin + that song. Then a car drove by. The window went down. I took out my earphones because I assumed the guy was going to ask me for directions. “Hey sunshine, how about a smile?”, he said.
And then he shut the window.
In a split second I want to scream and say that I was VERY happy. Was, yes, passed tense. Nope, the life of people with a resting bitch face (RBF) isn't easy. Know the feeling? You have an RBF in which your neutral facial expression makes you look pissed off or arrogant.
1. Kids run away from you
As much as you may like them, they don't like you. They think you're scary and can you blame them. If you were a tiny four year old and you saw a gigantic version of yourself with a semi forced clown smile, you'd be scared too.
2. You almost get into a bitch fight on a night out
The same situation as the window up and down story I mentioned before. So there you are, dancing along to the music with a gin-tonic in your hand and in the past half hour you've already had three guys walk up to you. Not to ask you whether or not you want a drink. Nope. They came to ask if you were doing alright. If you're having fun. And you suddenly get the urge to stomp them where it hurts most. Kind regards, the RBF.
“Also painful: when you have to explain to people that something was a joke.”
3. Meeting your in-laws for the first time = sore jaw
Because no way are they going to think you're crabby. You want to be the coolest daughter in law ever. Time for a poker face. Keep. Smiling. During. Every. Joke.
4. People don't understand your sarcasm
Because when you, aka miss Blair Waldorf, smile, people automatically assume something is up. Also painful: when you have to explain to people that something was a joke.
5. Want to make new friends? Forget about it
When you ask your friends, they probably thought you were a bitch the first time they saw you. Ev-er-y one used to think you were a first class biatch. And extremely arrogant. And then everyone (okay, almost everyone) takes back what they thought. Because in reality, you're very sweet. Really.
