Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

I had lunch at my favorite (and only) local Asian Food restaurant. Up until the middle of December, this was a great place to eat. Sadly, I saw the beginnings of the end today. In mid December, they started an all you can eat buffet. Up until that point it was menu only. I stated when they first opened, this place will be fine until they open the buffet. What these well meaning folks fail to understand or ignore, is that instead of “all you should eat”, there’s a lot of fat bastards out there who take literally the phrase “all you can eat” and eat all they can. There’s no way a small business like this can accommodate all the pigs out there who have no hobby other than to eat. Inevitably, they will either have to close the buffet or worse yet, close an otherwise nice restaurant. The all you can eat buffet bring the pigs out of the pen and we actually had to sit somewhere other than our favorite table.

Today, I watched 2 fat slobs and their wives make at least 16 trips between them to our little buffet line. They were already snorting around in their plates when we arrived and they were there when we left. I know its all you can eat but does that mean they should gorge until you can actually see food packed in the back of their throat because it won’t go down any further. Additionally, these folks walk around holding their plates with this look of entitlement on their face. They complain the loudest when food isn’t available and if I were guessing they justify not leaving a tip because it was a self serve buffet and they had to haul themselves off of their fat ass to be served. Look around: in shape people are a minority and gluttony is a sport in America. There’s no way we can take an idea that came about when people weren’t as big and greedy like an all you can eat buffet and make it work today.

The following is from MSNBC and shows how frustrating dealing with fat folks who blob around with this sense of entitlement can be. This restaurant will probably shut down.

All you can eat buffet bans ample appetites, big eaters expelled: This is weighty matter: A 265-pound man says a Louisiana restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet, then banned him and a relative because of how much they consumed during their visits.

Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3 disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant located in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife’s cousin, Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.

“She says, ‘Y’all fat, and y’all eat too much,’” Labit said.

Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.

“I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain’t that fat, I only weigh 277,” Borrelli said.

LINK http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22487819/

That last line is a sad comment on the state of American waistlines. The fat bastards ought to lose weight so the discrimination will stop. By the way, I had the buffet.

So I didn’t.  I watched my stored up selection of DVR’ed episodes of the Rockford Files.  They’re not going to answer a question any differently that hasn’t already been asked.  They can throw in a few more adjectives and maybe Mitt won’t have to pause for 8 seconds before answering  since he has his lines down by now.  However, he may take a new stand on the issues that matter we hadn’t heard before.  If it matters the next debate worth watching will be the one among the nominees for both (or all) parties.  Anything else is just the same old same old.

BY THE WAY:  Bill Bradley (Republican) endorses Obama as the candidate that truly appeals to all ancd can unite our country.   I think we’re on to something here.