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Should Fatties be considered Handicapped?
I was traveling this week, and while in Texas at a Wal-mart(it was off of 6 out of Collegestation…I went to the A&M/Texas game) I noticed a pair of extremely large individuals park at a handicap spot, and waddled over to the store(inside I saw them buying assorted hostess snacks and using the carts that walmart provides). Soon after they waddled off a van that had been waiting for the spot had to move farther down the line. A woman with an eyepatch, burned skin, and a artificial leg got out and walked halfway across the lot(this is one of those gi-normus Walmarts in the middle of nowhere)to the store.
Yesterday was a nightmare of a travel experience, due to bad weather on the East Coast. My flight out of DFW was delayed an hour and a half, so I was going to be landing in Atlanta in time for my next one by the skin of my teeth. Two people(You could have fit 2 of me in them, and I am not a skinny guy by any stretch of the imagination)had the airline folks push them in on wheelchairs while they were eating subway sandwiches. After we touched down at Atlanta the flight attendants requested that everyone not on a flight that leaves in half an hour remain seated so we can bust ass over to our connecting flight. This two instead got up, rummaged in the overhead bin for their safeway bags they were using as luggage, and managed to hold up everyone for ten ****ing minutes. By the time I arrived at my gate the plane was pulling away and I had to change flights to come in later. I saw the two(in wheelchairs) at ben&Jerry's later.
Now. I know that some folks really do have a Thyroid problem(I knew a guy in the navy who was diagnosed for it and treated…and lost weight) and I am not including them in this sweeping question, but how the Hell did we get to the point where we decided that because you are a fat **** through no one's fault but your own you're "handicap"?
Yesterday was a nightmare of a travel experience, due to bad weather on the East Coast. My flight out of DFW was delayed an hour and a half, so I was going to be landing in Atlanta in time for my next one by the skin of my teeth. Two people(You could have fit 2 of me in them, and I am not a skinny guy by any stretch of the imagination)had the airline folks push them in on wheelchairs while they were eating subway sandwiches. After we touched down at Atlanta the flight attendants requested that everyone not on a flight that leaves in half an hour remain seated so we can bust ass over to our connecting flight. This two instead got up, rummaged in the overhead bin for their safeway bags they were using as luggage, and managed to hold up everyone for ten ****ing minutes. By the time I arrived at my gate the plane was pulling away and I had to change flights to come in later. I saw the two(in wheelchairs) at ben&Jerry's later.
Now. I know that some folks really do have a Thyroid problem(I knew a guy in the navy who was diagnosed for it and treated…and lost weight) and I am not including them in this sweeping question, but how the Hell did we get to the point where we decided that because you are a fat **** through no one's fault but your own you're "handicap"?
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