The other day i was blowing a gift certificate at one of your local book/music/coffee chains on the new Flogging Molly DVD (how can you not enjoy those guys) and a copy of the remastered Fugazi "13 Songs" album (because 2 copies is not enough for my music library). Returning to the car i was delayed entry as i waited for a large, borderline obese, women to struggle her way up into her SUV. With this sudden free time on my hands as i waited for my turn i got thinking about how people so easily ignore many of life's warning signs.
Now i'm a skinny mutha fucker. Several times in my life i have struggled to try and put on weight. At one point, for a short time, i actually topped the scales at just over 140 lbs. It was unsustainable as one cannot do nothing but eat all day. Eventually i had to get to working, etc and quickly went back to my normal weight. i figure if i can be genetically constructed to have a small stomach and fast metabolism then it makes sense that others could have a large stomach and slow metabolism. Fat is fine (yes i said fat, no one seems to mind calling me skinny). i imagine others struggling with weight loss the way at times i've struggled with weight gain.
To turn the corner from the outer limits of fat into the realm of obese, however, requires the ignoring of many warning signs, much like turning the corner from very thin to skeletor. Not being able to get into your SUV is one of those warning signs clearly blinking: "get some fucking exercise or get a different car"...which leads me to the next warning sign here: the SUV.
After staring at this lady for some time i got bored and started staring at her car. i quickly realized that this new, trail-rated, Jeep would never stray from pavement. Other than the apparent need to transport the growing obese in this country around i don' t understand the majority of SUV sales. To transport family? Both my parents are the result of "Irish Catholic Birth Control". They are each one of 6 to 8 kids yet growing up neither family had an urban assault vehicle to storm the local shopping mall. In fact, as a child i remember my grandfather owning a Gremlin (if you don't now what this is look it up, you'll laugh that this car was ever made). With modern families averaging 2 kids this argument doesn't hold.
No outdoor excursions to go on, no army to transport around, so why then? The warning signs for the current climate change directly affected by man are blinking yet like obesity, ignored. One doesn't need reports of hurricanes hitting Florida (the penis of our country) to see the effects of climate change. The signs are right in our backyards yet useless SUV sales continue.
So i continued thinking as she continued to grunt and further wedge herself in: what would it take? The need to be fork-lifted from her house? A hurricane constantly following her around like she was Eeyore? Problems usually don't sneak up on us, they occur because we were ignoring the warning signs.
i need to go listen to the remastered mix of "waiting room" now. WWID (what would ian do).
1 comment:
Agree w/ assesment of everyone has a "normal weight." Right or wrong compared against society's "ideal" (created & fueled by media as far as I am concerned). Think about what the Romans in early years found irresitible. (I would never have a free Saturday night.)
I have found in my life that people of the "right" weight can be beautiful (and deep) or down right ugly. People of the "wrong" weight can also be beautiful (and deep) or down right ugly. (Not talking about health threating obesity here - although according to the BMI index I am obese.)
I think much of the problem is that somehow we have become a country of excess. We feel that we "deserve" things. "We deserve a break." Obese people, obese vehicles, super-size anyone? More is not always better.
As far as the SUV goes...government/comercial conspericy? Spend 5 years convincing all of America that they NEED an SUV. Then send gas prices higher than Jupiter. And, yes, I do believe our government has some control over where our gas prices land. It is not a situation we can lay totally in the laps of the "turban heads".
You mention the availability of larger vehicles to accomodate our larger size as a country average (disguised of course as a vehicle designed for people who like to get out & be active/explore, how ironic). Have you checked into clothing sizes lately? I know my husband wears the same size jeans (same brand) that he did in high school. Let me tell you, love the man but, he is NOT the same size he was in high school. The clothing industry has figured out that we are a "growing" yet vain society. If I can fit into the same size jeans I wore in high school, that is the brand I am buying because it negates all the wrongs I have imposed upon my body.
A woman's size 10 today is NOT the same as a size 10 ten/twenty years ago.
I am done ranting for tonight. Other than to say if you find my spelling ability lacking, please re-read your own postings. Content not spelling/grammer counts here right?
Goodnight & love to you.
P.S. Kudos on "waiting your turn" to get into your vehicle. Much of America has forgotten the virtue of patience.
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