Fat mom vs Fit mom at LAS airport I was traveling earlier this week and was flying home from Las Vegas on Tuesday evening. Our flight got delayed because of some passing monsoon (?!), so I was sitting facing the window, where you line up for the Southwest A1-30, A31-60 etc boarding. If you guys know how the layout of the gate works, there's quite a bit of space there, oftentimes people will sit there if there aren't any seats left. In front of me was a fat mom (maybe 5'5 and 200, 220lbs), and her daughter, 8 (also chubby/overweight). They were eating Popeyes from the terminal. About 15min later, another mom (fit, 5'3 and maybe 110lbs) and her two daughters (1, in a stroller, and 6, running around) approached. The two older girls (6 and 8) started talking and wanted to play a little bit, which was quite nice and sweet. After they finished talking, playing and coloring, the mothers took their respective daughters to sit down, and get ready for boarding. Fat mom gave her daughter skittles for a snack. Fit mom gave her daughters apple slices and also danced / jumped around them to play with them.  Not really a interesting story, but it was fun to see these two different women literally juxtaposed and fun for me to see their acute differences in parenting style.  On a side now, a ultra fatty (at least 500+lbs) sat in front of me on the flight. She was lucky that no one sat next to her (or, rather, no one was unlucky enough to have to sit beside her).