He meant it too... chrissie felt more than a tingle down his leg that night.
LLS
As a former, recovering fatty....
I have always been amused at how people will jump ugly if you say the “N” word, or if you suggest that muslims are terrorists.
But they will not hesitate to openly deride fat people.
I am not crying about “equal rights” for fat people. I am suggesting that it is easy for folks to say, “fatty-fatty-fat-fat” because it is an acceptable form of “hate speech.”
One day, I went on a trip with my boss, and my bosses boss from Hartford to NYC. As we got on the train, the bosses boss (lets call him Russ) started commenting that I “should stay away from the pastries” on the canteen cart. Then when we got into the city, Russ commented that we “did not have time to stop at the pretzel cart.” Both of these were prefaced by my first name.
Neither time did I have any intention of eating. In fact, I was on a diet and excerise program and had already lost a couple dozen pounds. I was large, but not Nadler fat. A former college lineman, I put on about forty pounds in the six or so years since graduating.
So, we finally get to our destination, and most of the men had to go to the mens room. As I stood at the urinal next to him, I must have missed my aim a little bit, and some splashed onto his shoe. I leaned over and quietly said, “A-hole, if you keep making fat jokes, I will start with bald jokes in the meetings.”
While I thought my future with this guy was done, I was mistaken. No more fat jokes, and I rode his coattails for a few years. He continued to be a jerk, just not to me. The end came when his wife found out that a couple of his direct reports had been covering up his affair with a very, very hot girl from our marketing department—the worst kept secret in the office.
But, if I were a woman I could have sued his ass. But, because I was a large man I had to suck it up. Really, who would have listened and who could have proven that a career was halted because I did not fit the visual image of a senior manager in that Harvard MBA world.
Think about that the next time you start making the fatty-fatt-fat jokes.