MUST vent! Pooh sized people UNITE!

[Mickeyflower]

SO I took my adorable little grand-niece to the park today. One of the benefits of my unemployment is that I have the pleasure to be her care taker 3 days a week while her parents are at work. I took her to a park in a snootier part of town, that I've taken her to before. The park is REALLY nice (although it is directly across from a cemetary ).

Riley-Shae decided she wanted to go on the teeter totter. This teeter totter is a steel one that is spring loaded so you don't NEED to have a person on the other side to make it work. She got up on her seat, I sat in the middle and made it bounce with my legs. She was laughing her cute little head off, having a grand time, until a city worker who was digging in the dirt in the corner of the park told me to get off. I though ok rude, but whatever. I got off and Riley-Shae played around for while. Some other adults arrived with their kids, and proceeded to do the EXACT same thing I had just done, and the city worker said NOTHING to them.

I was SOOOOOO angry, and embarrassed, and humiliated, but said nothing because my grand-niece and other kids were there. I'm 5'4' and 249 lbs. I am WELL AWARE that I am a big girl. But I am not so large that I will BREAK A STEEL TEETER TOTTER!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent! I will eventually cool down but I had to get it out.

 

[baby1disney]

I feel your pain..but I would definitely make a complaint to the city and let them know what happened!! That city worker had no business saying anything like that...especially not saying anything to the other parents either.

 

[TMcDwyer]

I am so sorry that this happened to you. People have to learn to stop being so judgmental and critical.

 

[DisneyCrazyX5]

I am sorry you had a bad experience - it can make a great day bad quick. I was wearing a high waisted sundress once. and an older lady came up an complemented me on my 3 sons and asked if I was going to have a girl this time - I was not pregnant. I can understand your feeling. I am 5'5 180lbs... I threw the dress away.

 

[Mickeyflower]

WTH is wrong with people????? I can deal with the glaring looks, and rolling eyes, I'm used to that. I consider myself to be pretty thick skinned when it comes to that. If I feel like I look great, I don't care what looks I get, but when some ignoramus opens their yap like that, my normal reaction is to fire back and defend myself. Since the little parrot was present, I simply said "okay" and went about my business. I could feel the heat rising in my face!

 

[Dismom+two]

I'm so sorry you were treated like that!! That was not right!!

 

[Sandi12404]

I work in an OB/Gyn office and the other day I was at the check out desk and a woman asked when I was due. I just looked at her and said "7 years ago". I could tell she was really embarrased and part of me just didn't care. You just don't say that to people if you aren't 100% sure. I know what I weigh, I know how I look and it's been said to me before and it hurts each and everytime.

 

[kaligal]

SO I took my adorable little grand-niece to the park today. One of the benefits of my unemployment is that I have the pleasure to be her care taker 3 days a week while her parents are at work. I took her to a park in a snootier part of town, that I've taken her to before. The park is REALLY nice (although it is directly across from a cemetary ).

Riley-Shae decided she wanted to go on the teeter totter. This teeter totter is a steel one that is spring loaded so you don't NEED to have a person on the other side to make it work. She got up on her seat, I sat in the middle and made it bounce with my legs. She was laughing her cute little head off, having a grand time, until a city worker who was digging in the dirt in the corner of the park told me to get off. I though ok rude, but whatever. I got off and Riley-Shae played around for while. Some other adults arrived with their kids, and proceeded to do the EXACT same thing I had just done, and the city worker said NOTHING to them.

I was SOOOOOO angry, and embarrassed, and humiliated, but said nothing because my grand-niece and other kids were there. I'm 5'4' and 249 lbs. I am WELL AWARE that I am a big girl. But I am not so large that I will BREAK A STEEL TEETER TOTTER!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent! I will eventually cool down but I had to get it out.

It is so very difficult to work up sorrow for you when you complain of being singled out for bigotry...right after you refer to an entire section of a town as "snooty."

Hello pot, this is the kettle calling - you're black.

 

[sayhello]

It is so very difficult to work up sorrow for you when you complain of being singled out for bigotry...right after you refer to an entire section of a town as "snooty."

Hello pot, this is the kettle calling - you're black.

I have to admit, I agree with this. I also have to wonder what makes her think she was told to stop strictly because she was "Pooh sized"? That's an assumption she made. Unless she didn't report that the guy said "Get off, you're too heavy to be doing that." She doesn't know why the other family wasn't told to stop. Perhaps they are related to the city worker. Who knows?

Sayhello

 

[Love2Run]

I have to agree. I don't know how you can take offense to this. I know how hard being over weight is, I struggle with it daily. But I also know that things have weight limits. Its a fact of life.

 

[Mickeyflower]

It is so very difficult to work up sorrow for you when you complain of being singled out for bigotry...right after you refer to an entire section of a town as "snooty."

Hello pot, this is the kettle calling - you're black.

It is a snootier part of town. It is at the end of a street with some well known expensive ($300/plate expensive) restaurants owned by chefs like Thomas Keller and Michael Chiarello. It is referred to as Rodeo Drive by the LOCALS and residences of that part of town. I used that word, because that is how EVERYONE WHO LIVES there referrers to it.

I have to admit, I agree with this. I also have to wonder what makes her think she was told to stop strictly because she was "Pooh sized"? That's an assumption she made. Unless she didn't report that the guy said "Get off, you're too heavy to be doing that." She doesn't know why the other family wasn't told to stop. Perhaps they are related to the city worker. Who knows?

Sayhello

It makes me think that beacuse I was the only one who was told to get off. None of the other adults doing the EXACT SAME THING I was, were told to get off. The city worker kept looking up, so he saw the other adults doing it, and said nothing to anyone but me. I'm not sure what other conclusion I can come too.

I have to agree. I don't know how you can take offense to this. I know how hard being over weight is, I struggle with it daily. But I also know that things have weight limits. Its a fact of life.

So, I'm not permitted to take offense to a comment/request directed at me, and nobody else? True he didn't say "Hey fatso take your lard butt off of there you're going to bend the STEEL" but it was pretty easy to conclude what he meant, when he did not say the same thing to any other adult who did the same thing.

 

[Sammie]

If it bothered you, I would have gone and asked the worker why you were asked to stop and others weren't.

At least then you would know if you had something to be upset about.

 

[Mickeyflower]

I chose not too because I had my nearly 2 year old grand-niece with me. I chose to leave and not say anything because who knows what he would have said in front of my niece. If it happens again with the same worker, I will DEFINITELY be making a complaint in writing.