Friday, 13 June 2008

2 Fat Ladies


2 Fat Ladies


This is something that happens to me often, but I saw an extreme example of it the other day…

I was standing in the line at the supermarket checkout, in my own world as usual, when I happened to notice that the two women in front of me were rather large! Tony Robbins likes to say ‘success leaves clues’, and wondering if the opposite was also true, I checked out the stuff on the belt in front of me. Amongst many other things were:

- 6 loaves of white bread
- Chocolate puddings
- An assortment of biscuits
- 4 pizzas (2 for 1!)
- 6 bottles of wine
- Some sort of treacle coated cakes
- And the coup de gras… over 10 bags of assorted sweets!

Oh, they were also buying some clothes, which I managed to see the size on the hanger of…size 22! To me, it doesn’t seem to take a genius on the level of Sherlock Holmes to work out how this has happened – in fact, it’s a very simple formula (women + crap food = size 22 clothes)! I also noticed there were a few things in my basket that were entirely absent in theirs, namely:

- Any unprocessed vegetables
- Any unprocessed fruit
- Any unprocessed meat

I see this worryingly regularly at the supermarket. I am not sure even I am dumb enough to accept the explanation that these people do not know that what they are buying is unhealthy, so what is the explanation?

I am not sure I know the answer to that, but I do have a tip for anyone reading this – next time you are at the supermarket checkout, have a think…is the stuff in your trolley more like what would be in a fit, healthy person’s trolley or more like the fat women’s trolley? The closer you get to a fit person’s trolley, the more chance you will have of being a fit person!

3 comments:

Chris said...

Alex - I share your pain, i frequently stock the freezer from Farmfoods. I feel so out of place queueing to pay for my chicken breasts, lamb chops and frozen mized berries. The sights you see and their children though are just horrific.

Alex Gold said...

At least you're not part of the 'herd' (that could be taken literally if you look at some of the people out there!)

Thanks for the comment!

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