Mom bitches out fat employee; sister has obeast patient with BMI of almost 100 Went to spend some time with the shitfam today. Mom & I went for lunch, then we walked around a nearby (outdoor) outlet mall. We went into a store, and she found something she wanted to buy. She gets into the line, which is one if those ones where they funnel you into one big long line, and you just go to whatever cash register is free. There's only 1 cash register open, staffed by a 6'3"ish 300 pound mayo. He is currently ringing up someone else, so my mom gets into line and I hang out near her looking at make-up and shit. My mom is the only person in line. The butter bomb finishes with the customer, and as soon as it's my mom's turn, some (thin) woman my age walks right up to the register, puts a blouse down, and the fatass asks, "did you find everything OK?" My mom says rather loudly (and somewhat rudely), "excuse me, but the line is over here. I was next." The woman for whom English was quite obviously her second language starts apologizing to my mom. And what does the butter tard do? He scans the lady's blouse, starts folding it, and waits for her to go back to the register. The woman keeps insisting for my mom to go to the register to purchase her items, but my mom told the woman just to go pay because the FUPA warrior had already rung it in. The lady pays, apologizes to my mom again, and leaves. My mom puts her items down on the counter and immediately scolds the lard goblin. "You shouldn't have let that happen. I was waiting in line - that is the line marked off by those ropes, isn't it? - and she just walked up and put her shirt down." The sofa crusher didn't make eye contact with my mom, and just said, "yeah I didn't see what happened." My mom snapped at him again: "I know you didn't see what happened. That's what I'm getting at - it's your job to pay attention to things like that. I own a store and if you were my employee, I'd give you a severe reprimand." The soda snorter finished the transaction and muttered "sorry" again before we walked away. My sister is doing her last semester of nurse's college in the States. She does weekly in-clinic rotations where she follows around a Registered Nurse and interacts with patients. Today she said she had a patient who was 5'0" and 480 pounds. That's a BMI of 93.7. She was supposed to discuss nutrition as part of her interaction with this patient, but barely broached the subject. In her own words, "I weigh 125 pounds, do you honestly think someone like that is going to listen to anything someone like me has to say about nutrition? And besides, she was already 480 pounds, what good is it going to do anyways?" I just hope she doesn't get docked marks for it.