"Sure, Lady, we serve anybody. Grab a couple of stools and sit down!"
Posted on 03/15/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by RightGeek
Rebecca Alexander’s worst experience dining while large happened just after she nailed a promotion at a nonprofit organization.
She took her staff, and her new boss, to lunch at a promising downtown restaurant in Portland, Ore., where she lives. As the hostess led the group to a booth, Ms. Alexander, a 31-year-old who wears a size 30, knew in an instant there was no way she was going to squeeze into it.
“I remember having this out-of-body experience,” she said. “I watched myself sit down and try to get in even though I knew the space was too small, because I so needed it to fit.” Defeated, she asked for a table. The hostess told her there would be a half-hour wait.
“The cherry on top was that I got to be the reason we had to stand around for 30 minutes,” she said.
For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat, dining out can be a social and physical minefield. Chairs with arms or impossibly small seats leave marks and bruises. Meals are spent in pain, or filled with worry that a flimsy chair might collapse.
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“Would you like an after-dinner mint, sir”.
I have an idea...
“Kinda makes you wonder...where do the morbidly obese go when they want to go out to eat? Probably the all you can eat smorgasbords.”
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!
Speaking as a fat #### :), I must say it is inherently unfair that our moral weaknesses show while drug addicts and smokers and alcoholics and even PSYCHOTICS can HIDE what they are, to some extent at least.
We’re SCREWED!!!!!!!!!! :)
I was so proud the day I could fit into a booth again :)
This from an ex boxer who did 500 sit ups and push ups at the boxing gym with relative ease.
Not all at once. Sets of 100.
Now all I can do is eat burgers in sets of 100 :)
Seriously, I gotta get rid of a bunch more or this fat Italian won’t be seen on FR a whole lot more years.
(that might encourage some to send me pies if they had my address) :)
Do you do that?
I hadn’t thought of looking into a restaurants’ kitchen before I ate there. I always thought if I asked to ‘see the kitchen’, the management would wonder why?
“What are you looking for? Is there something wrong?”
Anyone that obese would never get a promotion in the private sector.
You know you’re fat when you go for a swim and they call out the team that saves beached whales!
Very heartfelt, LOL.
Some of us are horizontally challenged!!!
I’ll sue you and FR!!!! :)
For 1000 big macs.
They say always ask high cause you’ll get less at settlement :)
You know you’re fat if fat jokes
aren’t funny anymore.
Golden Corral needs to do that
Majority of their patrons are fat
At least where I live
“You know you’re fat when you go for a swim and they call out the team that saves beached whales!”
That’s where we STOP eating when we realize we are!!
You’ll die laughing but I have a body dysmorphic disorder.
I see myself as ok looking in the mirror!!!!!!!!!! :(
Unless I sit down sideways facing a mirror then the full horror comes into play :(
Not pictures. When I see myself in pictures i’m like “WTF?!?!?!?!!”
But yeah, straight on in a mirror, i think, ah, a few pounds need to be lost.
Maybe in one arm a few pounds need to be lost... :)
Help me understand how “my rights” require others to spend money. I thought our rights were inherit in our being and didn’t require others to do anything, but not steal from me, that is, respect my rights.
If someone wants to trade with me, that’s their decision assuming I want to trade with them. I have no right to force someone to trade with me. It’s like this, I have the right to choose my friends, my freedom of association, I don’t have the right to force others to be my friend, as this would violate their rights.
Truth be told - I see women (and men) like her on a daily basis at the restaurants where I live. Without being specific as to my home town - I’ll give you a clue:
They don’t call it Fat Antonio for nothing.
But you still have to.
I lost 110 pounds three years ago.
Put back on 25 and I still had MORE to lose!!
gonna be 51 :(
The clock she’s a ticking and last I checked I’m not special and will not see 70 if I don’t lose more.
Don’t know how the HECK I don’t have diabetes or swollen ankles or really anything.
Pushing my luck with God.
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