Posted on 06/10/2005 1:23:54 PM PDT by Born Conservative
I guess being a tad overweight myself, something caught my attention leaving Washington this morning.
I was coming back from my big interview with President Bush — did I mention that I interviewed the president? Anyway, I was on line to get a cup of tea at one of those airport stands and a few people ahead of me was a woman trying to decide what to order.
She was fairly heavy herself. OK, maybe I'm being kind — she was quite heavy. And don't a couple of guys in back of me knew it.
They started grumbling about how she's holding up the line — which she really wasn't.
As she tried to decide what to order, one of them snapped, clearly within earshot, "Put down the donut, fatso."
The other guy piped up, something like, "Hey toots, think coffee... black... no cream… no sugar."
They laughed. She clearly heard them and she got flustered.
I swear, her eyes filled up. She left the line without getting anything.
I turned around and looked at these imbeciles, just shaking my head.
They gave me a look as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at?"
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Hmm. What is the point of Neil Cavuto writing this? That there are stupid, nasty inconsiderate men who use airports? Heck, we know that. I just don't get the point of this.
No one is fit to treat someone else like an ass. Unless you're trying to prove to the world, you're the one who's the ass.
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Good point, Mr. Cavuto.
The Cosmic Kharma Kitty will visit those guys on day....
And they'll get a nasty dose of their own medicine.
My solution: order up two cups of hot coffee, turn, and OOOOPS!
Then again, my wife insists that domesticating me is her way of protecting civilization.
I think his point might be that fat people are the only ones we can safely make fun of nowadays.
I guess I don't see why this is something Fox needed to print.
Is he making the point that society thinks it is okay to make fun of fat people? Where did he get that?
There may be people who don't want to sit in an airline seat next to a 400 lb person, and that may bother them with some justification, but I don't think society in general thinks it is okay to make fun of fat people, any more than it is okay to make fun on anyone for any reason.
There are always those who do make fun of others. We have all been subjected to them (or at least most of us)
Interesting how remarks about weight draw sympathy to the over-weight person whereas remarks about smokers is O.K. The anti-smokers should pat their backs for creating the eat-your-own mentality.
I know that you have to pick your battles and all, but. . .
I don't see much point in feeling empathy so strongly at that moment, but do nothing other than shake your head, and than come back and write it.
I think I would have been a whole lot more impressed if he had chosen to take a stronger stand with the two knuckleheads, especially when they said, 'what are you looking at?' I would have had to have responded. Or, I would have been impressed if he had rescued the woman by standing up for her before she left the line or went to her and apologized on behalf of the little apes who insulted her.
Reminds me of when Charles Barkley got mad at sports reporter Peter Vecsey for ragging him about his weight. Charles said, "I can always lose weight, but Peter Vecsey will always be ugly". Great!
I'm afraid I wouldn't be as civil as Neil in this instance.
I would have actually held up the line, invited the woman back and paid for her meal daring those idiots to make any further insults.
That's what I was thinking. Karma is coming after those punks.
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Those two immature buffoons came across much worse than the heavy woman in this scenario.
It's called "oh lord I promised the editor a column by 3 did anything interesting happen to me lately?" journalism.
Seriously,
When I was a 90 pound intern, I was not very kind at times to folks who were even the slightest bit overweight.
Now, 25 years later, and some nasty twerks of fate, health and time beyond my control, I can see my own words coming back at me.
The same will come back to haunt those idiots.
Maybe what Neil was trying to say was:
"Keep the words soft and sweet, you'll never know from day to day which ones you'll have to eat"
I feel for that poor lady, and no I only weigh 120 pounds....
Reminds me of when Charles Barkley got mad at sports reporter Peter Vecsey for ragging him about his weight. Charles said, "I can always lose weight, but Peter Vecsey will always be ugly". Great!
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WC Fields once had a similar line. Someone told him, "you're drunk." And he said, "yes, and you're crazy. Tomorrow I'll be sober, and you will be crazy for the rest of our life."
It's called "oh lord I promised the editor a column by 3 did anything interesting happen to me lately?" journalism.
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Cavuto also did a piece shortly after that plane got too close to the Capitol, and a number of congress people complained that they were not "evacuated" to their liking. He started off by telling those whiners to shut up.
Cruelty and lack of manners knows no bounds!
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