Don't cry, It's only fat!

So, I'm sure that this next experience is going to regsiter with many other large women out there. I was in my local Safeway store, just minding my own business. Actually, I was aimlessly walking up and down every aisle hoping something would jump out at me and remind me of what the hell I was in there for in the first place. Anyway, while looking at the hardware section, amazed at all the little wierd gadgets that are available, I saw an adorable little old lady staring at me from further down the aisle. I generously smiled back, innocently thinking she was going to ask me to get something down from one of the top shelves for her. Instead, this adorable little old lady came walking up to me and said, "So honey, when are you due?". My first response was, "Due for what?". Of course, I'm not always the quickest but looking at her face slowly change from a welcoming smile to a miserable grimacing wince, it was painfully clear. Of course I only had one response available now, "I'm not pregnant, just overweight." I thought that was a quick, easy way to let her know there would be NO belly touching here today but my comment only drew this agonizingly sad look and a stream of tears that would melt Charlie Mansons heart. She was soooo sorry and could not stop apologizing. It's okay. It's fat, it would be different if I didn't know it was there and she kind of sprung it on me but no, it has been with me for awhile. She was just mortified. Instead of me walking away licking my wounds(emotional ones of course), I was stuck there consoling someones grandma who confused my obsession with Ben & Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie with having some nameless fools lovechild. What a shame. I ended up hugging her and over and over telling her that I was okay with her mistake. It's okay people. Fat people know we are fat. It doesn't suddenly attack us in a dark alley or overtake us like some agressive disease. It's just fat. DEAL WITH IT!