That's what she said

How four words changed my seemingly simple life.

Many things can make you change the way you look at the world around you. 

You can be a traveller of many lands and come back home with a different outlook on culture, language, and lifestyle.
You can witness a traumatic scene of human suffering and have it change the way you feel compassion.
Perhaps you have had your heart torpedoed into a trillion bits and it has changed the way you feel love.
Maybe you adopt a pathetic, tortured animal and it has changed the way you perceive living creatures outside yourself.
Maybe you have never seen an ocean more blue and beautiful than when you were on vacation down south and it has made you want to change the way you impact this planet.

Or, maybe you've heard four simple words in an American sitcom show and somehow it has changed ordinary conversation of day to day things into sexually suggestive dialogue.

RM: "How was your lunch?"
Me: "It was really good. But it left a nasty taste in my mouth after though. I had to brush for like ten minutes."
Me: "That's what she said!"

Yes, it is annoying. Yes, everyone says it and you wonder when it will eventually fizzle out.  Like the obnoxious "WAZZZZZZZZZZZUP!" expression that came before it, you just have to sit back and let it run its course.

Student: (reading script from text) "Why are you wearing big pants?" "I like them big."
Teacher Na: (quickly under her breath) "Thats what she said!"

No matter the situation, I cannot let a potential 'she said' comment go undeclared.  As soon as you jump on the bandwagon, as soon as you utter those four words for the first time, it will change you.  You won't think much about it, you'll try to go with the tasks of your daily life, but then, out of nowhere, you'll pick up on a conversation on the subway or in the shopping mall, or you'll witness a car wreck and someone near you says "oh its a big one" and your mind instantly returns to those four words: "Thats what she said."

Thats when you realize you're hooked.
Everyday, after the first time those four words escape your lips, you are no longer the same person.  Those four words are stamped forever in your brain, waiting patiently, ever so quietly, beneath the surface of regular thought, waiting and waiting, for that perfect moment to shout out again. 

TD: "I need to go to Forever 21 to exchange something. It will be real quick."
IP: "Yeah, right, like it'll be quick."
Me: "It will be. In and out, in and out."
(In the silence hovering between us): Thats what she said!

And that is how four seemingly innocent words changed forever my not so innocent existence.