Can I Get Fries With That??

Okay, so I totally felt like evil today. I've seen those shows where they follow the fat people around or transform slim people into fat people with a fat suit, and they explore how often they are treated differently or, sometimes poorly. And I believe it, to a point. Of course people look at huge people and think "How unhealthy" or "Eww" because 450 pounds really belongs on a bison or other free range roaming animal. Now, I'm not trying to be insincere, but there's a point where people go from overweight to really awful and unhealthy.

Anyways, starving and running out of time for lunch, I was forced to go through a drive-thru. It was one of those drive-thru's that has the extra menu 5 feet in front of the menu with the speaker, so that if there was a long line, people can speed up the process by planning their order while they wait. But the ONE car that was in the drive thru ahead of me apparently couldn't make up their minds for 7 minutes at the 1st menu. As my impatience almost hit the brink of homicidal eccentricity, the car finally pulled up to the speaker menu. As the big brown Astro Van rounded the corner up to the speaker, I caught a glance of the driver. She was beyond obese. And the first thought that crossed my mind was, "Great, this is going to take forever!!" Then I rolled down my window in an attempt to hear her order one of everything on the menu, but it took me too long because by the time my window was far enough down to hear anything, all I heard was, "And a diet coke." And then, "That will be $7.86." Now, in reality, only about a minute and a half had gone by before she drove up to the pick-up window, and I just felt terrible about my own thoughts. She couldn't have ordered much more than me since my one burrito cost $5.

Why would I be so quick to judge?? Was I sad for her?? Did I wish people like her would take better care of themselves?? Was I just impatient?? Do I have my own weight issues?? I'm not really sure why I would almost instinctively think that an excessively obese person would order a whole menu. I never thought I was judgemental like that. So now I really have to check myself, and I really truly hope our society becomes healthier as a whole, and leave the big bodies for animals and circus acts.