But my weight doesn't affect anyone else! (Proof of lie #1254 - Scootypuff Edition) A recent post here reminded my of an old observation I made about another way fats ruin everything. Before he died, my dad was very sick for a long time. He was diabetic and had a very bad diet, and was suffering the consequences: kidney failure, poor circulation, bad vision, tired easily, all of it. Now, I know what you're thinking, but my dad wasn't the obeast here. He didn't have an overeating problem, he had a eat-nothing-for-18-hours-and-then-eat-a-SlimJim-and-a-Snickers problem. I think he probably weighed 160lbs when he died, and 20lbs of that might have been water weight from the ESRD. The diabetes was the genetic kind, not the eat-yourself-sick kind. Point is, he wound up having to use the scootypuffs in stores to get around for a while there. And I noticed something odd. Many of the scootypuffs wouldn't work for him, despite being fully charged. And eventually, we figured out the problem. You see, much like a lawn mower, the public-use scootypuffs have a weight trigger under the seat. If no one is sitting in it, it won't go. I presume this is to keep them from running away across the parking lot and into cars. Well, the pressure triggers in these 'puffs had been so abused by the obeasts that they didn't even register my 160-ish dad as present. We would sometimes have to wait for another scootypuff to be available, or slowly make our way through without. As time went on, we ended up getting my dad his own wheelchair for trips (non-motorized). So yes, fatty, your weight does affect others. You ruin equipment meant for the truly disabled by being too lazy to walk and too greedy to put the fork down. And also: fat privilege is being chauffeured around a store while everyone else has to walk because you've abused the machine into compliance.