After high school, when I was losing weight for the first time, I had a couple of other experiences. A guy shoved past me in the store. I gave him a dirty look, and his response was, excuse you pig. While on a family vacation, my younger cousin poked my stomach and made the Pillsbury dough boy sound, in front of everyone. Rather embarrassing. Went out with some friends one night, ended up outside of an ice cream shop. Some guy came up to me pretending to hit on me. I told him I had a boyfriend, and he went into the ice cream shop laughing. Apparently he made fun of me while in there, because one of the people I was with came out offering to beat him up for me.
I just don't understand why people think it's ok, acceptable or amusing to make fun of people for whatever reason. :?:
Wow thanks for sharing all of these guys! These stories are funny, yet really sad. There's something wrong with our culture when things like this are acceptable imo! I mean some things are somewhat innocent, like kids pointing it out.. OF COURSE their parents should teach them what's ok to say and what's not etc, but some of these stories are just cruel. It's been said before but it's as though obese people are the only "group" left that is allowed to be blatantly ridiculed!
Anyway, that's my two cents..
Sometimes you can't escape Karma. The three main people that teased me when I was a kid for being heavier than all the rest of the kids (I wasn't "fat" though) are now really really big people as adults. A lot bigger than me. Maybe they should have thought twice about tormenting people.
Hi,
I'm new but I'll share a story.
We had this security guard at my work building and something happened to her and she wasn't working for a while. Then one day she came back and saw me leaving and she said to me, "What happened to you? You got fat!" She didn't stop there either, she kept on asking me, "Are you just eating a lot? Why are you eating so much?"
I told some other coworkers about it and they told me that the culture that the security guard is from, it's not considered rude to comment about it. It still made me feel bad though.
Here's a story for someone else, if it were me, i'd be mortified.
We were taking a family vacation when there was a announcement over the loudspeaker saying that we would be delayed a little bit because the plane was too heavy and they need to shift cargo or something. Then my nephew says to his mom, "Is that because of you?"
Weird thing is that none of these horror stories are the thing that made me finally decide to really get serious about losing weight. I don't really know what it was but one day I just decided to do it for myself.
It is so sad what some children get put through at school. I wasn't fat in grade or high school, but I went through that same torture in other ways. It thoroughly destroyed me inside.
I have mixed feelings about the kids who do that. As much I've lost in life due to damage they did, I don't think I'd trade that for instead having to come to grips with being a person who did that to someone else.