There’s a young kid in my building with a nose, or schnoz, as my pal Ed would say, the length of Long Island.
I mean it’s big.
Frank the super tells me, the boy, who’s 12, is bugging his parents to have it fixed.
AYE
Why does this trouble me? I think of Dean Martin and Beth Casten, I went to school with (Beth, not Dean), who had their’s done…Dino’s was ok, but Beth’s resembled a rain pipe, not a great look for a teenage girl.
This brings up my mother who was fond of Josh next door to us, also having nose issues.
One day, over cake and Ovaltine, they had a heart-to-heart.
When it was over, Josh was suddenly madly in love with his nose.
My mom told him, “You know what they say about men with big noses don’t you Josh?”
My father couldn’t believe what he overheard…but what he didn’t hear was the rest of what she said.
“Men with big noses…why, they have character.”
I need to tell this story to Frank the super. Maybe he’ll then have a heart-to-heart with the schnoz upstairs, who from the looks of it, has lots of character, even if it’s just by a nose.
🙂
SB
That Steve Martin film was pretty funny
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Cyarno. Yes, it was.
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Variety is the spice of life, or so I’m told. So why this lust to be standard? And worse still, the belief that a surgeon’s blade can deliver it.
Cropped noses and ears, penis extensions, boob jobs, liposuction, designer vaginas, face-lifts: where will it all end?
I think of Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren, two heart-throbs from my childhood, both with big noses, both drop-dead gorgeous.
I have both big nose and big ears. I have never considered changing. 😉
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Why you’re a secure man Mick, and you do know what they say about men with big ears, don’t you? Just ask Dumbo.
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Can I join the circus?
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Absolutely except, now there isn’t one. After the law passed to protect Dumbo and his peers against…how did you get them to wiggle their ears again with a champagne glass on their knee…so Ringling Brothers folded it’s Big Top, permanently. Can’t say I’m
Sorry.
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…and sarky songs from crows has got to be work-place bullying, methinks.
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Methinks…love that word.
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I’m an Audrey girl myself, and spelt Cyrano wrong…please heed the correction.
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All the right letters but not necessarily in the right order. 😉
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Professor Higgins lives…CYRANO
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I paraphrase our national treasure Eric Morcambe.
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There are worse things than a big nose. But if the big nose is yours, then it becomes a focal point. Your mom had some good words there.
My Pookie watches a gold mining show and one of the main characters and his family all have large nose. Their last name is Schnabel, so reminiscent of schnozel.
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That’s funny.
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It’s easier to be comfortable with it when it’s not your nose. The teen years are so hard. That’s when you realize you are not perfect.
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What constitutes perfect anyway. I’ll never know. Sigh
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You are such a Dear to give him your worry time. There are big noses, then there are BIG noses. I have a relative who had hers done. I, personally, did not feel she needed it, but it made a big difference to her. To each their own, I guess.
Scott
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It’s all very personal, isn’t it.
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Oh my, yes and I leave the final decision to the person; I don’t try and talk them out of it, just suggest and try to give some thoughts to what makes a person beautiful – inside / outside together.
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You’re a true democrat in that department.
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I think that is a compliment.
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It is…:)
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In a world where skinny people are photoshopped to be skinnier this kid doesn’t think he has a chance. In my world, it gives him character. He still has some time to “grow into it.”
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He’s cute. He is. I can see what he’ll look like after scanning his father who he inherited that Schnoz from. Tall, slim and stately, with a prominent nose. If you compare it to Jimmy Durante’s, it’s a pug. 🙂
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Yikes! Good thing he’s living in one of the plastic surgery capitals of the world.
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This is true. Especially our neighborhood with it’s array of pulled, lifted and smashed body parts. That’s what they do in rhinoplasty. They sledgehammer your schnoz like an old stonewall. God bless drugs.
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