There are a few topics that get me hot under the collar and this is one of them.
When I see fat people on scooters, I want to yank them off. Walk, damnit. We know you can. Oh what's that? You can't because you have bad knees and you have a debilitating back problem? Maybe if you walked more often, you wouldn't.
Christ.
There is a woman here at work, that is obese. She also has a scooter. Strangely, the scooter doesn't go home with her at night though *sarcasm*. She walks to her car, which incidentally is riiiiiiiiight outside her office. The rest of us have to walk about 56 kms to our cars, yet she mysteriously gets one within spitting distance. Amazing how that works.
Guaranteeeeeeeed that the workplace pays for her scooter....which is my point here. It's too bad that Occupational Health can't just assist her in the area of nutrition and exercise. Instead they have to allow her to do her job properly, and by doing so, they provide her with a scooter to get around. Yes, this workplace is massive. You can walk a kilometer and a half from one end to the other....and even the fittest of us complain about having to go back and forth. But maybe, just maybe, the exercise would help.
I also see this lady leaving her scooter in the hall while she is in someone's office, and blocking off corridors while she stops people to chat. It's like those idiots in grocery stores that park their fucking carts in the middle of the aisle while people are trying to navigate their carts up and down the aisle too. The world doesn't revolve around you, Missy. Get some sense.
However, this brings me to another point. Scooters should only be programmed to move at the speed that a human can walk. I don't know how many times I have heard the whirring of a scooter, only to look back and jump out of its way as it blows my hair back from the sheer speed of it passing me.
So let me get this right....you can't WALK, yet you feel you should be able to move faster than those of us who can? Hell, they even max the speed on golf carts. They should do the same with scooters.
If you're old, yes, I understand the scooter. If you're fat, I don't. Unless you are fat with a pre-fat-existing issue, that is. What would that be, you ask? Chronic pain that puts people on their backs. Steroids/medication that make you gain enormous amounts of weight. Tumours on your pituitary gland (happened to a friend of mine). Stuff like that. Otherwise, get your fat ass off the scooter and start moving.
Yes, I am overweight too. Not obese, but overweight.If I ever got so fat that I couldn't navigate the world on my own, I would scrape away my taste buds and live on fruit and veggies, since I would have no interest in food at that point anyhow.
Actually, now that I think about that last idea....*gets the potato peeler from the kitchen drawer*.....
2 comments:
Thanks for the rolling laugh here-
“I don't know how many times I have heard the whirring of a scooter, only to look back and jump out of its way as it blows my hair back from the sheer speed of it passing me.”
Question : What is a pre-fat-existing issue?
In general I agree and disagree with you on this particular situation.
Yes, there are people that take advantage of the system. Their action sometimes screws it up for legit disability issues that people may have. It plainly sucks.
Yet, the judgments on this woman I think are misguided. We mustn’t be judging someone right away, when we don’t know what their story is. You are throwing a few things that you have noticed about their mannerisms, and common things that they do on a daily basis, and making this assumption that she is lazy, inconsiderate, cheating the system and not a nice person.
It is so very easy to judge. We all do it.
I saw a young couple at the Super store the other day. I immediately noticed the woman had two black eyes. I then glared at the guy beside her. Without looking at him for more than 3 seconds, I made the assumption that he was a beater. She could have gotten into a car accident, or hit her face with a soccer ball, or she is in fact in an abusive relationship. But who am I to judge, when I don’t know their story? What gain is there to judging?
I challenge you – instead of judging next time you feel like it, instead, maybe give her a compliment about something (her shoes or hair). Maybe she won’t bark as much.
Remember - hurting people hurt people.
Nat
P.S. - I am that (insert swear word) person that has a habit of leaving the cart in the middle of the shopping aisle. But I am not that person that thinks the world revolves around me. I am moving away from the oblivious, in own world chick,…maybe my own world revolves around me …but anyway, I am now a work in progress of becoming more aware of my surroundings’ kinda chick. It’s hard. Sorry. I’ll try if you’ll try.
Fucking Handspiker! LOL!
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