A fat story In college, I worked at a hospital as a valet. I didn't make as much as I could working a nightclub, but I had normal hours and most of the people who used the valet service genuinely needed help getting around, so that at least made me feel like I contributed to society.  One day, my boss has me work the slow entrance where I spend most of the day standing around waiting for something to do. I park a few cars, one of which is an F250 with three obese ladies; the oldest in a wheel chair. Just before I close up for the day, the three ladies come out and I go get their enormous truck. This is where the problem starts. We had a standing order: if anyone needed significant assistance getting into their car, we weren't allowed to help them. This sounds cruel, but there's a good reason for it. You don't start jerking, lifting, pulling on someone who is old, frail, or whatever. One of our guys pulled an old man's shoulder out of socket helping him a bit too much. So anyway, the two young fat ladies need help getting the old fat lady out of her wheelchair and into the truck, which had no running boards or steps. I did what I was allowed to do, provide a steady hand, give an arm to use as a brace, etc. My passive assistance wasn't enough and the two ladies wanted me to actually lift/shove this lady into the truck. I went through my usual spiel about how I'm not allowed to lift patients...blah blah blah. Also, since it was right at 5pm there weren't any nurses immediately available to help out.  Now mind you, none of these three are discernably disabled, just fat. So the two ladies decide to give it their best effort and push and shove and grunt and try to get mama into the truck on their own. After a couple attempts, they got tired and all three took a smoke break. Right as I was left, they were talking about driving over to a loading dock and getting mama in that way.  All that said, I'm generally not a big fan of this sub and I debated posting this. But, you all do have a wonderful point that obesity is a choice, and we as a society need to stop accepting mass over eating.