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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Being what is considered a casual smoker, I have actually quit for years at a time and even today with having taken up the habit again average less than 5 per day and never smoke before sundown. I am confident that I could walk away.
Perhaps you are correct and I did insert some sarcasm to make my point. I also have a mean streak and low tolerance for people who will not take responsbility for their actions.
Of course, most of really gross fatties are too big to get out of the house so we only have to contend with the "normal" fatties. My biggest problem is not with the fatties themselves but with their attitude and excuses. Most smokers I know are polite about it and will ask before lighting up and will generally not impose their smoking on others unless it is permitted by both the establishment and their companions. Fatties blame their situation on everyone and want the world to change for them. Fatties do not apologize to you when they take up half your seat on an airplane or in a movie theatre -- they sue the airlines and the movie houses for not making the seats big enough. Fatties do not apologize when they squeeze into a seat at the table behind you and smash you into your own table until you cannot breath -- they blame the restaurant for putting the tables too close together. Fatties sit in restaurants and alone order as much as everyone at your table combined and sluppily inhale all of it and then want healthcare when they cannot walk or breath. Finally, fatties stuff their faces with a whole bag of Oreos in one sitting and then want the cookies banned so that people who can control themselves and enjoy a couple of Oreos now and then cannot because the fatties don't want to exercise any self-control.
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I hate the flab overflow onto my subway seat as much as the next guy, the guy who cant fold his WSJ in half when reading it and the guy who jabs me with his umbrella. But, I hae to wonder if this blatant sizism isnt couterproductive. I mean, maybe this attitude is perceived by our larger friends and this induces self loathing, which drives them to binge? You actually seem to have downright contempt for these folks. Maybe that isnt good?
Case in point. I had an episode somewhat recently where this motherjumpin huge, and i mean huge, woman was waddling down Connecticut Ave in Dupont Circle and I was trying to walk briskly past her, passing on the left. Except she was really hard to pass bc of her size and the stupid trees that areplanted every five feet. Between them, I didnt hav e the sidewalk space. So I said, excuse me and tried to wedge my way trhough before the next sidewalk tree. She completely SNAPPED at me. So, the follwoing words flew out of my mouth without my being able to stop them "You take up too much space" (and obviously this is a personal issue for me as anyone who has read my umbrella posts would know- i hate crowded disorderly sidewalks where fast walksers cannot walk at a decent pace on the left side of the walk). I felt so awful after I said that, just horrible. And had she not been such a bitch in the first place, I woul d have apologozied, I probably drove that woman to have a gigantic steak and fries and milkshake snack.
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