I was 11, and already obese. My mom and I couldn't find a bathing suit to fit me, so she'd sewed me one.

I was on the high dive getting ready to jump when one of my male classmates shouted "Tubbbooo Lardoooo!!!! So fat they don't even make clothes her size!!!!" I wanted to fall to the bottom of the pool and die. I have actually seen him recently, around town, and want to punch him in the face. What a loser.

i was at the checkout at the grocery store chatting with the cashier. the lady behind is, frankly, a byotch. she's got her face into everybody's business and she's bloody rude - she figures because she was born 15 minutes before moses and hasn't died yet, she's entitled to automatic respect AND she's allowed to say anything she wants.

so i was at the checkout with my cart and she was ticked probably bec i didn't let her go ahead of me. in my cart, i had a crapload of meat, vegetables, fruit, some other healthy stuff (can't remember) and a birthday cake on the bottom rack.

so i pile all the meat on the counter and the miserable old goat says "more? didn't you just buy a pile of meat last week?" and the cashier, without looking up or breaking stride, says "how did your dog like the lamb last week? and oh - i see he's getting pork today! he must've been a very good dog!" [i feed him raw food only]

i pile all the veg, fruit, etc, and the crank makes a comment about how she's sure that's what i really eat because as we all know, us fatties have giant vaults full of mcdonald's and taco bell hidden in our bat caves. and the cashier said "i see you've lost more weight - how much is that so far? your efforts are really paying off - you look good!"

and then i pull out the birthday cake and i hear "a-HAH!" and the cashier said "do give your daughter my best wishes on her birthday today", lol.

that's not word-for-word, i can't remember now but i did post about it when it happened. i'm still waiting for my chance to get dandy to pee on the old bat's tires.

@Threenorns, I'm surprised you refrained from turning around and calling her an old bat!

I actually remembered something else. I guess I don't really usually consider some moments embarrassing since it's your family and they just embarrass you sometimes anyways lol.

So when I was a kid, everytime we went over to my grandparents (about once a month) my grandma would weigh us. There are 4 kids in my family and she would weigh each of us, though my little brother and sister wouldn't be weighed a lot of the time because they were skinny. So if I ever gained a pound or two she would comment on it or say I was getting chubby (I was slightly overweight as a child). It really made me resent going there. I loved my grandma but she was very critical about weight and we kind of suspect she may have had an eating disorder. :S

I broke a dining room chair at a party at my boss' house. In front of my other boss and several other coworkers. I wanted to crawl under that chair, not that I would have fit. :(

In grade school the boys used to call me "Riverboat" - a horrible mangling of my last name.

I don't remember how old I was, but I was either in 7th or 8th grade. A boy ran up to me with his friend and said "HEY MY FRIEND HAS A CRUSH ON YOU" and all of his friends started laughing and saying how gross I was. Awesome, right?

I hated middle school.

Originally Posted by ValRock:
I was 11, and already obese. My mom and I couldn't find a bathing suit to fit me, so she'd sewed me one.

I was on the high dive getting ready to jump when one of my male classmates shouted "Tubbbooo Lardoooo!!!! So fat they don't even make clothes her size!!!!" I wanted to fall to the bottom of the pool and die. I have actually seen him recently, around town, and want to punch him in the face. What a loser.

How horrible! :(

There are several people who I simultaneously want to punch in the face/show off how I look now. Especially several guys. I kind of want to run to a select few wearing the tightest pants I have, waggle my butt in their face and say "YOU COULD HAVE HAD THIS!" and run off laughing at them.

It's not worth it though. A girl can dream.

My heart actually hurts for every one of you!

I've had a couple of moments like this, but possibly one of the most embarrassing was when we were doing an exercise in drama class when I was 16, and I was definitely not my fattest. Part of the scene involved army-crawling between the legs of a chair, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to fit. I just candidly said "Oh no, I don't think I'll fit!" and everybody had a little chuckle, and my sweet best friend who knows me inside out leaned down to where I was on the floor and whispered "Don't worry, as you wiggle through I'll lift the chair so you aren't between the legs - they'll all think you fit". I was friends with everyone in the class anyway, and they never would have made fun of me for it, but I was absolutely mortified anyway.


I had no idea that so many people had things shouted at them from passing cars! I've had it too, a man shouted "Oioi fatty!" at me froma car while I was at a bus stop.. why on earth is this regular behaviour?!

you know what? my whatever-he-is-today does that when we're down in toronto.

i don't know why - and not just about weight, either. we'll pass a sikh and he'll shout "hey, balbo!" (that's from an east indian coworker when he was at UPS who couldn't say "volvo"; he said "bolbo"). or we'll pass some woman dressed less than conservatively and he'll shout "show me the cat!" (referring to exactly what you think) or "hey nanny!" if it's an elderly woman driving a car (he's from trinidad).

i have no idea why he does it and i've gotten out of the car and walked home. i've asked him and all he does is laugh stupidly and say "it's so funny!". i told him funny it isn't, it's just juvenile. i also told him he better hope he's got some kind of mental affliction bec if he doesn't now, he'll have one after i give him a concussion!

he can control it to a degree - he never does it when our daughter's in the car. this is something else: if he's got friends in the car, they all laugh uproariously, then laugh even harder when i get angry.


i've been toying with the idea of shouting something complimentary to the next hot young guy we drive past - see how he likes them apples.

Originally Posted by ValRock:
I have actually seen him recently, around town, and want to punch him in the face. What a loser.

I doubt he recognizes you and if he does well ... judging from your avatar picture just seeing you would probably be punishment enough for him. :D

Originally Posted by viklane:
Here's the thing: I think the "they didn't realize" excuse is bullshit. They know what they're doing -- they're being mean because they get a high from it, because there's something nasty in their lives and they want other people to feel the same.

I definitely agree with you, but I meant that young people in general really do not know how they affect other people. Of course they were doing it on purpose to be mean, but little did they know I had just lost a family member and was severely depressed.

I'm just wondering who raises these people. No one in my family and no one I know would ever insult someone like many of us have been insulted.

The worst thing is actually what got me to want to lose weight. I was in the hospital. Had just had my catheter removed but they didn't want me to go to the bathroom so they brought me a port a potty. The one they brought was small. The one nurse asked the other why she brought that one..and her answer....I didn't know she was a WHALE...as lound as can be. Guess one day I should thank her.

Originally Posted by banananutmuffin:
Although people who "drive by" insult are worse. More cowardly, since they can't be confronted.

Good grief... the world is full of *******s.

I could not agree MORE - cowards, though I'd hate to have some dipSh*t standing there saying it to my face, I just cannot FATHOM what the F they get out of screaming it out a car window...whelp all I can say is KARMA - I hope they're bald before they're 40 w/ big pot bellies and missing teeth - too much?? LOL.

The two embarrassing instances that stuck with me the most were, funnily enough, also times when I was actively trying to do something about my weight. They were both car-yellers, too, like a lot of you guys have encountered.

Once I was riding my bike around downtown and a group of guys called me a fat cow out their car window. Well, that stopped me from even getting on a bike for 10 years (it happened in high school, I was particularly vulnerable). The other time was in 2008 when I was losing weight the last time, I had decided to start a running program, and again, guys yelled out their window "run fat ***." I shouted a giant "F*** YOU" after them that time though :)

People are jerkfaces. And that's putting it kindly :p

just remember: we may be fat but they're mentally defective - and we're losing weight.

Was walking down the street downtown one morning, and passed two guys who were talking about stocks. One of them glanced me up and down and went back to his conversation, with the unfortunate Freudian slip of "yeah the market has been really fat - FLAT - lately."

Eeek!... I just remembered another one...

When I was in 7th grade, I had a doc appt & was very late for school - I got to school during lunch period, which was almost over. I was so hungry! - hadn't eaten any breakfast (you know the drill, had to fast for certain tests, etc.) so I rushed thru the line to get lunch before it was closed down. I sat with a group of friends who had long finished their lunch, and I was trying to hurry to eat because it was almost time to go! - so I was eating really fast (I eat fast anyway, but that day I was eating extra fast!) and this one boy walked by & made "pig" noises at me (oinking) and said "eat, P-p-p-p-p-orky, eat!!!" (Porky - as in Porky the Pig cartoon character, known for his stuttering.)

I was mortified! - and I wasn't even fat then - I was 12 years old & weighed maybe 90 lb. :?:

Also, a few years ago, a woman I worked with had lost about 60 lb. One day as I was "eating lunch very fast" she walked by my office & said "Look at her, just shoveling it in!" - :rolleyes: I mean, seriously, WTF? Some people are just jack@sses & others are just stupid I guess.