Slap my hand now!

Now, I am not upset, really, but it has stuck with me all day and night, in terms of wondering-- what makes people so mean?

I don't understand random attacks of malice. I can kind of understand when a person thinks he's been wronged in some way and hits cranky overload, but being verbally assaulted just because I'm standing there? WTF, dude.

My favorite random thing yelled out a car at me was "Why don't you act like you know?" from a dude who was at impatient behind me at a drive up p.o. box. What did he mean??? Who knows?

You totally didn't know! That's why you couldn't act like it.

And if you don't know, now you know.

I gained weight when I was training karate six days a week and the guys around me were all plotting ways to get more calories into themselves or they'd lose weight. One guy drank sweetened condensed milk. When we went out to eat after training, I had a plain hamburger and they had "supersize the whole menu."

When I was in college, I was one of those "desperately trying to gain weight, and failing" people. (I was 6' 3" and 145 lbs.) Now, NSM. I should lose some weight, but it's somewhat alien to my way of thinking so I haven't accomplished much in that direction.

I think the only time I've had something yelled at me was when a carload of college girls drove by and one yelled, "Gain some weight!"

And knowing is half the battle.

You totally didn't know! That's why you couldn't act like it.

EXACTLY!

Some kids drove by the dog park on Monday, and stopped to yell "Get a life, losers!" to the people there, including me. It seems like an odd thing to get incensed about.

Anyone who insults someone about any aspect of their looks is a horrible person. Period. There is NEVER a need to insult a stranger like that.

I rarely comment on anyone's moral character unless asked, and even then, I am pretty circumspect!

But Sophia, you also would not bare your all to get onto MTV either, would you? I am sorry to say that dignity is and always has been a rare commodity.

class issue

It's weird, how something almost completely unmoored from raw economics -- the majority of Americans can afford adequate nutrition, all other things being equal -- has turned up with meaning opposite from what it meant when it was moored to economics. When the working class went hungry, fat was a wonderful thing to be. Now that the working class don't go hungry, there's something wrong with that too.

Anyone who insults someone about any aspect of their looks is a horrible person. Period. There is NEVER a need to insult a stranger like that.

Seriously.

I have been known to yell out of my car, but the yells have always consisted of things like "The light's red, idiot" and occasional yells and gestures when trying to tell another driver that he has a flat tire or his coffee cup is on top of the car. There should be univerally agreed on signals for things like that. The only time I mutter things at people in person is to tell them that they're too stupid to live. Then I'm not insulting them for how they look, but for the fact that they have parked their shopping cart crosswise across the aisle and no amount of "excuse mes" will make them move.