This happened to me last week and I'm still so amazed by it that I just had to share it with all of you.
One evening last week I was out for my nightly walk when I decided, on my way home, to drop into a corner store and pick up a bottle of diet 7-Up and a little something to satisfy a chocolate craving. So I got my pop and a snack-sized bag of Mini Eggs, and headed over to the cash.
There was a woman there that I know only slightly (as in, I know her to see her and say hello, but I don't know her name and she doesn't know mine.) She was busy opening a bunch of breakopen tickets (I don't know if anyone outside of Canada will know what those are, but they're fifty-cent instant lottery tickets.)
Anyway, as I put my stuff on the counter, she looks over and says, "You don't need that candy!"
And I don't know what it was -- whether I was *that* taken aback by her ignorance or her sheer gall or what -- but I immediately snapped back, "And you don't need those lottery tickets. What's your point?"
Get this...she actually got sniffy about how "rude" I was. Nosy old bat.
As I was walking the rest of the way home, I thought about how it's still okay to make comments like that to people who are heavier than what they "should" be. If I weighed 120 pounds, she probably wouldn't have said that...but because I'm still overweight, what I choose to eat is fair game. And of course, she (and everyone else) assumes that if they see me buying *one* small bag of Mini-Eggs, I must be eating them all the time, because...well, look at me, right?
People like that piss me off. Because really, who is she (or anyone else) to point the finger at someone else? We ALL have things we indulge in that we probably "shouldn't" (ahem, like lottery tickets) but the point is, what someone else chooses to do is their own damn business.