Sunday, September 16, 2012

Slingblade and a couple of fatties

 Yesterday evening during halftime of a college football game; I ran into a grocery store in search of something that had been on my mind for most of the day, sourdough bread.  I made a beeline for the deli. There were two couples waiting ahead of me in line.  Since it was a short line, fortunately I didn't have to wait long.  I didn't want to miss the second half kickoff of the game I was watching. The first couple were an older Caucasian man who kinda looked like that guy in Slingblade and a young attractive African American woman, who was probably young enough to be his daughter.
These two actually reminded me of another older man, younger woman couple that I saw downtown a couple of years back, except that particular young woman was Caucasian.  I'm thinking it's the same guy though because I remember him looking like Carl from Slingblade too.  As a matter of fact, I'm sure it's the same guy.
 
He looked to be slow witted, a veritable dullard. But I could tell by the way he communicated with the lady behind the counter that he was a very intelligent man.  As always, looks can be deceiving.  Those two were picking up some kind of specialty cake.  She was all over him like a crackhead on a crackpipe.  I had a hard time seeing where he stopped and she began.
 
Whenever I see an older man with a younger woman I always assume one of two things; first it's his daughter or second.....dude must have money.  Maybe that's not fair, but I've seen that reality time and time again.
Whether or not I was wrong for thinking like that, it turns out that I was right.  When I was finally leaving the grocery store I did happen to see the older gentleman open the door of a brand new shiny candy apple red Porsche for that young sister.  Of course relationships like this are the way of the world. Older men with money will look for women young enough to be their daughters; and it's not like older women with money don't do the same thing too.  It is what it is.
 The second couple in line ahead of me at the deli counter were to put it bluntly, enormous.  They had surpassed fat a long time ago. Enormous was probably the best term to describe them. Together they must have weighed about eight or nine hundred pounds.  Truth be told, they were pretty damned huge.  I do not believe for a second that they were capable of having intercourse.

Now I like to think that I don't hate on fat people; after all, a third of all Americans are fat.  One day maybe I'll be fat too?!?
 Now once a couple of years back, I wrote a post in this blog about a couple of experiences that I had while seated next to a couple of overweight women at restaurants, here in Charleston and in Atlanta.  As a matter of fact, here's the link...

http://reggiesblogspotrantings.blogspot.com/2011/01/morbidly-obese.html
 
 
At that time, one of my regular readers took offense to what I had written and accused me of just basically overreacting to them because they were fat.  She had admitted herself to being overweight and she felt that people judged her continuously due to her size. Of course, I'd like to think that I didn't do that and I denied doing that at that time.  But since then I've put a lot of thought into what she said, she could have been right.
 
Were all of these folks I talked about in the past and the two I saw yesterday fat and gluttonous?!?  Well..............yes they were.
But maybe I was overreacting to what I saw?  Anything is possible and I have no problem saying that I'm wrong from time to time.  I'm scared of the person that's unwilling to admit that simple fact.
 
I must admit that when I see people that are morbidly obese, I do tend to have preconceived notions about them.  I just assume they are prone not to exercise and that they lack self control and where I might be careful of the things that I'll eat, they'll just shove another piece of cake in their piehole at the drop of a hat and keep it moving.  Maybe that is unfair; however, there are many times when that's true.
 
By the way, these two Goliaths actually bought the last three loaves of sourdough bread in the store and were patiently waiting for them to be sliced..........I didn't know that until I got to the counter myself.  When I asked for sourdough bread, the lady behind the counter smirked and told me that "the heavy couple" bought the last three loaves.
 
I didn't even order any other kind of bread, I just took my hungry ass home.
Look I just wanted some sourdough bread, even though I really didn't need it.  For dietary reasons, I really should have been eating wheat bread anyway. It's not like I couldn't live without it, it's just not that serious.  But at the time, I really wanted that bread. Would it really have hurt for those two big collard green eating folks to have just gotten two loaves of bread, rather than three and isn't that just one of the many things wrong in this country now?  More of us could stand to exercise and eat right on a regular basis.............and not buy the last three loaves of sourdough bread.  I really wanted that bread too.  My mouth was all ready for it, but ultimately I was shit outta luck.
 

42 comments:

  1. Since this post is mostly about you not getting the bread I'm just gonna laugh. Hahahahahahhaaha! Sorry :( I would have been mad too!

    I love Slingblade! When Doyle gets 'kilt' at the end...the BEST scene ever!

    About both of those couples... GROSS! #judgeme

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    1. I really wanted that sourdough bread Gorgeous Puddin'

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    2. Sourdough bread...guess that's another new thing I will have to try...

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  2. When I lived in San Diego, that was the hardest thing for me to get used to...Sourdough Bread. All of the sandwiches were made with Sourdough and you know being from NOLA, I'm a "Bunny Bread" chick so, I went through serious withdrawals.
    I hope you're able to get your bread the next time Reg.

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    1. Hmmmmm, Bunny Bread.....oh yeah, that's nice and tasty.

      But I didn't need it, I actually shouldn't have been buying it. I should have been buying wheat bread. I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I'm sure he'll say the same thing as soon as he starts going through my blood work. I'm sure that same deli sold some whole grain stuff that was so wholesome that I'd have been shitting Granola for the next week or so.

      Next time, I'm just gonna stay my big ass home BayouCreole.

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  3. I'm aggreeing with Georgeous Puddin about the bread! LOL

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    1. Sure I was mad about the bread Daij, but really......I didn't need it.

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    1. Why are you laughing Dawna? I really wanted that bread.

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  5. I used to date significantly older men (20+ years difference) when I was a student. It's not (just) that they may have money... the most expensive gift I've ever got from one of them was a perfume. It's the whole lifestyle. Past a certain age, a man is much more likely to have a career, a situation, some interesting stories to tell, he may know some exciting people and go to exciting places and, most important, he probably knows how to treat a woman (even if he may not be genuine). If you also happen to be a young woman who is an "old soul", you can bet you are going to fall for a much older man at least once. I would say it's a good learning experience to have an older partner, for both genders.
    The sad truth, Reggie, is that most guys in their 20's really don't know how to act on a date, still think that McDonalds is a "restaurant" and that "you have a nice ass" qualifies as poetry. I don't date guys past their mid-40's anymore, but I still go at least 5 years older than my age (I'm 29).
    Sorry about your bread! I'm baking slider buns right now.

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    1. Yes indeed, women do tend to mature much faster than men Catintherain, that I will give you.

      I particularly appreciated the line where you noted young men tend to think of McDonalds as a "restaurant" (it is isn't it?) and "you have a nice ass" qualifies as poetry. One would think that when a man takes you to McDonalds that you'd at least get the option to "Supersize" the drink and fries.

      C'mon Catintherain you know that men are stupid.

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    2. I did have an experience where the guy thought McDonalds qualified as a restaurant...but worse, he was close to age. Guess it shows age really isn't necessarily a reflection of maturity...

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    3. Maybe dude was just being thrifty.........or rather, cheap as hell?!?

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  6. Man, I'm glad you didn't see those folks in the parking lot or around the grocery store. That would've been some confrontation, lol.

    There is a particular pamesean, green onion and potato bread that I am fond of that I purchase from our farmers market. I only buy half a sliced loaf, though. I do believe I'd kick a sucka in the kneecaps if they took the last loaf though, lol.

    I think we are all judgmental by nature. I ain't a skinny chick and I get judged. And I know I judge folks, too. And we all make assumptions. I always remind myself that assumption is the lowest form of human thought, and of course, my assumptions may be incorrect (most times they are). But I think our culture trains us to be this way. Sad, but true. It is something I am cognizant of and try to work on. Real hard, though.

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  7. When you said a couple of fatties, I thought you meant joints, LOL! You know I just did a post about people being judgmental. It's how we've been conditioned to think.

    People look at me and assume I eat junk food and don't exercise, when the reality of it is that I don't eat much (people are always shocked)and I eat late often because (a) it hasn't been too long ago that I was working two jobs and never had a chance to eat before 8:30 pm and (b)I have to eat closer to treatment time because if I don't, I will get physically sick and then I sit all night.

    My metabolism is shot.
    *shrug* To each his own. I just gotta handle mine.

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    1. Ahhhh no Icnonlybme, I didn't mean anyone's Glaucoma medication, that's what some of my friends call it anyway.

      My health has been heading south for awhile now. I might look fit to most, but I guess according to my bloodwork, I'm not. So I make it a point to exercise regularly and try and eat the right things. For the most part, I do.

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  8. Judging is a part of our DNA, bruh. Everyone on this planet, sooner or later, becomes a victim of someone else's perception & is then assigned (or branded w/) a stereotype. It ain't always fair, but such is life. Sorry that sourdough joint wasn't there for you when you coveted it most. Loved Billy Bob in that flick. "Ummm...hmmm..."


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    1. Yeah I loved the movie too Moanerplicity. But instead of "some of them there French fried potaters"; I wanted some sourdough bread.

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  9. Damn, Reg... Now I gotta' run to the store for some sourdough bread myself...

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    1. I just hope you get your sourdough bread John.

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    2. Love Slingblade; it's one of my FAVE movies.

      I'm not sure I'll look at sourdough bread quite the same again now...Thanks!

      As for overweight people, I've got my issues with them as I stated in one of your posts.

      As for the older/younger thing, it's just one of those things we just shake our heads at and keep it moving. At least I do.

      Concur with Moanerplicity - Judging is a part of our DNA, bruh. Everyone on this planet, sooner or later, becomes a victim of someone else's perception & is then assigned (or branded w/) a stereotype. It ain't always fair, but such is life.

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    3. I guess I've struggled with admitting that I have an issue with severely overweight people. But I guess that the simple truth is that I do. Whenever I see them I just assume that they lack self control and self discipline. Maybe that is unfair, but that is my perception.

      Three fucking loaves of bread.....really?!?

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  10. See, in the S.F. Bay Area, running out of sourdough bread is an impossibility. So I can't relate to that. But I feel your pain. As for judging others, it aint right, but I guess it has to be OK. It's too tiring trying to control other people's thoughts.

    This is just my take on older man/younger woman thing, but living vicariously through an old man is a substitute for living one's own life. Shoot, I can rent a jaguar and pretend I'm a hotshot rather than go out with an old man who rented a jag to pretend he's a hotshot. #Imjustsayin.

    BTW that movie reminds me of my son who went through convulsions of uncontrolled laughter at even the thought of that slack jaw. For a good two years, my teen son mimicked that fool - grunts and all. It seemed that show kept coming on HBO again and again to refuel my child's foolish love of this character.

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    1. Well here in the south Anna Renee, it happens.

      After all these years I'm still laughing at Billy Bob Thornton's portrayal of Carl. I thought it was brilliant and hilarious, probably even when they didn't mean it to be.

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  11. Those pictures are hilarious!! I don't mind obese people until they sit next to me on a flight and have half of their thigh on me. I hate when I have my mouth set on something and I can't have it, that's the super fat girl inside of me.

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    1. Trish maybe it's just me, but whenever I'm on a flight and a fat person sits next to me they always seem to fart and then look at me like "are you getting a whiff of that?"

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  12. One day you'll wake up and realize those people did you a favor. I bet you didn't even walk to the store and you wanted to get a carbohydrated soaked loaf of worthless calories so you could sit in front of the TV for the next hour scratch and stuff your face and those people prevented you from doing it. I wish more people would do that for me when I get those cravings for doughnuts, maybe then I wouldn't be the 15-20 pounds overweight that I am now.

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    1. I know they did a favor for me now Curious. One of these days I'm gonna write that post about my health.

      Yeah but donuts are the business Curious!!! I wouldn't trust a man or woman that didn't like donuts. Tell me, are you a Dunkin Donuts man or a Krispy Kreme man?!? There's only two kinds in the world. DD and KK are kind of like Coke and Pepsi ya know or McDonalds and Burger King. Everyone's got a preference, it's one or the other Curious.

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    2. I'm sorry, I have to intervene: http://horinca.blogspot.ca/2009/11/angry-donuts-of-transylvania-again.html We have these donuts (Angry Donuts) back home that would take America by storm! They are huge, crispy and bursting with vanilla custard/chocolate cream/jam/sweet cheese/salty cheese. The line-ups are aways huge, because the smell is simply arresting when you pass by their stores. I thought of opening a franchise here in Canada, but: a) I have no brain for business b) I would feel guilty bringing such a ridiculously unhealthy thing in this country. Proud to say I'm eating an apple while typing this :D.

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    3. Krispy Kremes never made it big in South Jersey. Plus they are a little too sweet for my tastes and the only time I would ever have one would be from the store on 23rd and 8th in Manhattan and I think even that is closed now. No I'm a Dunkin Donuts man by default and, here's where I get into trouble, only from the Asian stores because all the Indian stores that I've been to seem to cook there stuff in yesterday's oil, if not the oil from the day before....I take my donuts very seriously.

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    4. Catintherain in honor of this line of comments, I will stop on my way to work today to eat a chocolate frosted Dunkin Donut. Dunkin Donuts are the business, plain and simple.

      The politics of donuts are a helluva topic!!!!

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    5. Yes donuts are a serious business Curious!!!

      Yes here in the south Krispy Kreme's are the ultimate shiznit. Even Paula Deen has a recipe for bread pudding that calls for a couple of dozen KK donuts.

      I'm like you in that I think they're entirely too sweet. To me they're like eating a bowl of sugar. I seem to remember seeing a Krispy Kreme in Penn Station. I'm sure there is one there.

      Now I was actually in New Jersey with the wife about three weeks ago and we went into the city and went to a place called The Donut Plant in Chelsea. Their donuts were damned tasty and I had mine, which was about the size of my head, with some ice cold milk. Damn but it was good!!!

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    6. I guess you're right Reggie. I had forgotten the Krispy Kreme on the concourse before you get to the Amtrak ticket windows. I guess it's because they feel they have the right to charge an arm and a leg just because people were in a rush to get somewhere else.

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    7. Well Curious every single time I've walked by that Krispy Kreme in Penn Station there is a long ass line. So apparently they do have the right to charge an arm and a leg and someone is paying for it, just not me. I'll be the brother at the Dunkin Donuts; and I have been, time and time again.

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    8. It's crazy; I love Dunkin Donuts coffee, but when it comes to donuts, Krispy has my vote. And I would only need just one because of how delectable they are...it is meant to be savored. Now just thinking about that donut makes me want one.

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  13. Love Slingblade. Definitely one of my favorite movies. Funny, I thought this post was going to be about mustard and biscuits! LOL!

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    1. Nah.....not at all, but I'm glad you enjoyed the post Brandi.

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