I'm starting to get really annoyed when people ask if my vertical labret hurt.

So much so that when a shopgirl asked me that the other day, pointing to her own lip, leaning in to my face with the wide-eyed, brow-furrowed expression such a question demands, I snapped 'that's something of a redundant question, don't you think?' I don't think she knew what I meant but she didn't pursue it. I immediately felt bad about being something of a cow and explained that it didn't, not really. I didn't buy anything from her, though.

My, but I'm becoming a bit stroppy in my old age.