Taking the Mad Out
Woman in the Middle | June 10, 2015I went out to lunch with a friend the other day. We hadn’t seen each other in eons so we had a lot to catch up on. We discussed kids, of course, and work.
She told me about her drama at work. It seems she just can’t keep a straight face any more when her boss announces yet another bad idea the staff will have to contend with. Showing her emotions on her face, especially when she was mad, was getting her in trouble.
She was telling a family member about this problem when they suggested Botox. “It will keep you from making the “mad” face,” she was told. She took the relatives advice and got a little Botox. Sure enough,the next time a dumb idea was announced by the boss, her eyebrows refused to fly up to her hairline and her forehead didn’t wrinkle. When she was asked if this idea was OK to her, she was able to calmly (and with a smooth forehead) tell the boss it was all great…and he believed it because no mad face was in sight.
I had never heard of Botox being used for this reason, but I thought it was brilliant. Oh, how many times have I wished to have a straight face and was just not able to?
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