Skinny people ask the silliest questions. Once, many years (and many pounds) ago, a well-meaning neighbor lady I bumped into at the grocery store happily patted my tummy and asked me "So...what is it?" I stared at her, completely blank. "Is it a boy, or a girl?" She gave me that conspiratorial wink usually reserved for…
Believe it or not, there ARE advantages to being fat. For one, we fat people are harder to kidnap. Seriously. I'm no wispy 90-pound victim so if you wanna snatch me off the street and put me in the trunk of your car, you'd better bring help. And probably a sandwich. And two, the bigger we are, the more calories we burn…
