Tue 11 Jul 2006
Jitters, Shadyside:
Slim Woman: [leaning over the counter] Just a small one with skim milk.
Barista: How much do you weigh? 120? You don’t need skim.
Slim Woman: Okay, I’ll go with 2% —Wait, can I have a milkshake?
— Overheard by grammarnerd.
Overheard in Pittsburgh
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July 11th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Grrrr. How irritating. Think if the woman was fat it would be funny for her to say, “A milkshake? How much do you weigh, ’bout 250? You don’t need a milkshake!”
–a skinny person
July 12th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Actually, I think it’s bullshit too.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
relax. i’m sure it was said as a friendly complement for the sake of making conversation. if the girl had been 90 lbs and anorexic the comment never would have been made. just like if she had been 250 lbs your comment never would have been made. lighten up.
–a person falling into the normal range on the BMI
July 15th, 2006 at 12:17 am
The part that struck me was not that the server would make such a comment, but that the customer would be so easily swayed to go for the decadence. In fact she jumped at the chance to fall off the low-fat bandwagon with almost no prompting. Be honest. Can’t we all relate, just a little?