Retired Guy wrote:
I am retired and I went down to a local, discount supermarket
today to stock up on nonperishables. It's the first time that I
had been to this particular establishment on the first day of the
month. I could not help but notice that there were tons (pardon
the pun) of really fat people riding around the aisles in electric
scooters. The smallest of them probably weighed around 400 pounds.

As I traversed the aisles with my cart, the scooters always seemed
to be blocking the way for others and parked squarely in front of
junk food. People were being delayed in their grocery shopping
while these scooter driving fat people made up their mind what
kind of cookies and such they wanted to buy. I observed that the
baskets in the scooters were not exactly brimming with health food.

While shopping, I bumped into the manager. I related my
observations to him. The manager let me know that it was the
first of the month and that's when people who are retired or on
welfare get paid. I told him that the people riding in the
scooters looked to be anywhere from their late 20's to early 40's.
The manager explained that the people in the scooters were on
disability because they were too fat to work. He went on to
explain that this store, because it had a lot of junk food at low
prices, tended to attract many of the really fat people in the
local area. Because the really fat people loved this supermarket,
they had 10 of these electric scooters available. The manager
said that the first of the month is so busy with the really fat
people that sometimes all the scooters get used and there's a
small line to ride one.

What is this country coming to?

Call it the "Feed Lot" mentality. You've seen cattle feed lots,
right? Mc Donalds led the way in applying the philosophy to feeding
people. Pretty soon, ten year old female humans will be lactating
and birthing children .... then die at age 30. Have you noticed that
glucosamine/condroiton used for healing compressed knee and hip
cartilage in cows is now used for treat the same condition in people?
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- Philip @ Maximum Torque RPM