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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Eat out less, along with eating less. Pretty obvious.
If you can’t fit into a booth, it’s time to put down the fork.
Always inspect the kitchen first ...
Trump’s fault.
Yep keep walking right past restaurants eating your celery sticks.
In some eateries, it’s possible to move the tables in booths back and forth, and/or to put a chair at the end of a booth table. Some people get tubby far more easily than other people do, it ain’t fair but it’s life on earth, and some consideration all around helps the world go around better.
Good use of "ice cream sundae imagery" by the fat lady to make a point.
For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat,
Less doesn’t mean never, but some people have to be advice nannies.
“If you can’t fit into a booth, it’s time to put down the fork.”
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Yeah, I’d say that’s definitely a sign.
Whao! That thing would be better off in a barn. Eating from a trough.
Moooo.
All the News that doesn’t fit to print.
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.
“Eeets only waffer theen!!”
Which doesn’t look like what this is.
Some folks get tubby with great ease, and others are string beans no matter what they choose to dine on, and some have been both at different times in their lives.
She’s sooo fat...when she goes to a restaurant instead of a menu they give her an estimate! Ba da TSSSS!
Pity about the seat at the restaurant. But wait until she has an MI in her house and the EMS crew needs three times the amount of time and resources to get her out of the house and on her way to the hospital.
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