Fat a**!!

Let me tell you a little story.....


About 6-7 years ago, my husband and I went to a MN Twins game with another couple. After the game was over, we began the 7 block trek back to our respective cars. We were standing at the street corner, waiting for the little "walk" signal to pop up so we could cross the busy street. When the little walk signal finally popped up, we started across, when some jerk yelled out of his car window, "Hurry up, fat ass!" Sadly, I instantly knew that he meant me. Nobody else in our group of 4 was overweight...except me. The other girl we were with sweetly yelled back, "Oh yeah? Fat ass?" trying to make it seem like they meant her. They didn't, though. She knew it and I knew it.
We all were kind of quiet for the rest of the walk back and pretended like that hadn't happened. It was too uncomfortable to talk about. I was holding back the tears and could feel my cheeks throbbing from embarrassment. My husband and I rode home and didn't say anything about it ever again.


My point of sharing this story is to say, first of all, if you've ever experienced one of those moments where you can no longer deny you're overweight and it's thrown in your face like that....I get it. I understand. I had my own personal "a-ha!" moments of realizing I needed to change, but having a stranger call you out on it is on a whole different level.


I also share this for myself. Even though it may sound like kind of a dumb thing, I will likely never forget that moment. It broke my heart at the time, but was WAY too embarrassing to talk about with anyone...even my husband. So, now that I am no longer unhealthy and greatly overweight, sharing this story out loud feels like a little release for me and I can let it go and imagine myself giving that jerk a piece of my mind! People can be awful sometimes. If that guy knew how much he hurt me, well actually, I doubt he'd care. Someone who would say that out loud to a stranger doesn't have much of a soul! So, even though this is horribly embarrassing to share, I'm glad to release this from my "baggage!" Thanks for listening! :)