So Be Full

Last Friday during my lunch, one of my friends and I went for pedicures – taking full advantage of the boss leaving early for the day. While at the “drying area” that we were shuffled over to in order to allow for the polish to finish drying so they can get another customer back, we sat across from one of the tiniest women I’ve ever seen. She was about my age, 5’4” and maybe weighed 100 lbs (if she were soaking wet with 10 lb weights tied around her ankles and a boat anchor tied around her neck). She looked like she was going to break in half with a hug. Her friend was waiting for her to finish at the drying station. So while we’re there, the bag o’ bones covered in skin asked her friend to get her drink she’d left at the nail station. Dutifully, her friend brings her a SoBe Lean juice drink of some sort. The very first thought that my brain fired off was, “SoBe LEAN? This is definitely a girl that can afford the calories in a SoBe regular. In fact, she needs a SoBe Fat!” My friend and I exchanged glances, it was apparent her brain had a similar thought. A few minutes later, the skeleton girl’s friend (who by the way was pregnant – and in a nail salon? Didn’t she know that the fumes are bad for pregnant women and cause problems in sexual organ development? I guess I was full of judgments that day) gets out a granola bar and begins eating, joking around that she’s always hungry. Skeleton girl proudly announces, “well, at least those don’t contain a lot of calories.” Um, hello? Your friend’s pregnant. Who are you to tell her how many calories she could/should consume!? And furthermore, why in the world do YOU know the calorie count of every food known to man? I personally don’t think you’re getting enough to eat, but that’s just me. I could just envision my grandmother say, “get that poor starving girl some food!” Moments later, we decided our toenails were sufficiently dry, put on our shoes, and headed back to the car. But before I left, I considered giving her $0.30 with the promise of sending $0.30 every day as her sponsor, but only if she agreed to write me.