Daily talk at the tarp store Back with my first story since beginning work at a plus sized store. As you'd expect, my coworkers are very loud and obnoxious. I happened to catch one of their conversations recently, however, and the subject matter seemed more than fitting: gastric sleeve surgery. Turns out, it's extremely common for employees and our regulars to have the surgery, and it's basically an ongoing open forum in the store every single day. Seeing how I'm relatively new, and don't care to learn names, I don't know who they're talking about in regards to our regular customers, but the story is basically the same. Some planet finally had enough, went and got the surgery, and had to complain to whoever would listen about the pain. You can tell when you see their distorted bodies: legs so thick the calf and thigh are one stump, no double chin but enough loose stomach skin to make a coat, etc. Kind of makes you wonder why they go through the trouble of getting the surgery when they're going to end up with even worse bodies than before, or just stuff their faces until they're back at square one.