You Don't Even Know My Cat Long time lurker, first time poster here.  I manage a large chain grocery store. At the end of my shift today I had a few purchases to make, one of which was cat nip. As I’m putting my things on the belt, a butter huffer in a pink night gown, cart overflowing with junk, steps in line behind me. The cashier ringing me up was making small talk with me and joking that if I give my cat the nip, she’ll be tearing around the house all night. I laughed and said, “Naw.. she way too fat and lazy for that”. Immediately upon finishing my sentence, butter huffer says “Fluffy.” I completely ignore it and keep chatting with the cashier as I’m bagging my things, reiterating “Yeah, she’s a fat fat fatty”. We chuckle. Butter huffer says again, more firmly, “FLUFFY”. So I turn to give it the attention that it is so desperate for it requires her to inject her fat opinion into a conversation she has no part in. Her beady little pig eyes are practically buried in that mass of fat that’s supposed to be it’s face, but she does her best to make eye contact with me anyway. Now that it’s managed to get me to acknowledge it’s disgusting presence, it continues. “She’s not FAT. She’s FLUFFY.” So I’m thinking to myself, are you fucking serious right now? You don’t even know my cat. Are you really so insecure that you have to project your opinion onto my cat? But instead of asking her who the hell she thinks she is, I held eye contact with her in silence juuuust long enough to make it uncomfortable. Then I responded by saying, “No, she’s definitely fat. It’s not difficult to tell the difference”. Then I gave her a quick once over with my eyes. She said nothing. I said nothing. Then I said goodbye to the cashier, turned, and sailed out the door without saying another word. Edit: Yikes.. I didn’t realize I needed to clarify that my cat isn’t being abused by being over fed. She’s a normal size cat who we tease for being “fat” because she behaves as if she was sometimes: taking lots of naps, lazing about all day, and whining that she’s hungry and wants more food when she is literally standing in front of her meal. She eats Blue Buffalo Grain Free cat food, portioned based on her size. She sees a vet regularly and is very VERY well loved.