Spring has sprung in the Fat Tart/Cornflake household and we’re being very sociable. In the past week or so we’ve eaten out almost as much as at home. At home we’ve entertained resulting in a fridge full of fancy left overs, sweets, cheese and port. It’s not helpful on the diet front, my self control is still missing, I’ve even checked under the sofa as that’s where the tv control often ends up, but it’s not there.
At the moment the frustration at not performing well as a dieter is exhausting me. Sometimes I find myself gauging my fat against the fat of others. I see those bigger than me as a cautionary tale. I would never assume I couldn’t or wouldn’t expand given the right (wrong?) circumstance. Socially I am often the biggest present, professionally almost always but it’s relatively rare that out in public I judge myself the fattest person and I wonder where those women bigger than me buy their tights? and how do they manage in restaurant toilets?
I nearly got stuck in a toilet last week leaving me with the view that it would be helpful if toilets had a sizing system.
I would like the M/F sign, or gender neutral signs (what should that be? Just a toilet perhaps?) to also include an indication of booth size. I’ve never come across a toilet that wasn’t perfectly adequate for sitting and doing what is necessary but manoeuvring in and out of the allotted space may require one to climb onto the sani bin to open the door to exit or you may need to unlock the door then sit back down to open it, you may prefer trying to straddle the toilet bowl to unlock and open the door. It’s undignified and likely unhygienic. I would class those toilets as a size XS/S, those that require less undignified manoeuvres, mere squashing up against the wall to get in and out, I’d class as M. Restaurant/public toilets that you can swan in and out of without thought, without rubbing up against the toilet bowl, walls or sanitary disposal units, I’d class as size L/XL. When desperate obviously any size will do but I like a generous fitting lavatory booth, I imagine we all do, even the slim amongst us.
Other items that need size guides include;
Chairs; did you know that a lot of commercially available dining chairs have a 17 stone weight limit? I look in horror at big blokes eating out. If their chair gave way I might not be able to stop myself laughing out loud and then I’d have to leave hastily, possibly leaving dinner uneaten.
Playground equip; I got stuck on a slide one time, I think it was about a size 10 but in retrospect perhaps it was an age ten.
Cars; my dad looked ridiculous driving my Mini. Admittedly Minis were very small back then, probably a size 12 ladies, 38 gentlemen’s.
Anyway I don’t think it’s too much to ask
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