While having lunch with a business associate, we overheard a man loudly berating his companion for ordering “an unnecessarily large and fattening” meal. Of course our curiosity was piqued, so we attempted to see what had been ordered. We were both shocked when we discovered that he was referring to a very large salad with slices of steak on top.
To be fair, the salad was enormous, but it was just lettuce and other assorted vegetables and legumes. Large, yes. Fattening, no.
What was also surprising and upsetting was that the woman he was speaking to would be considered, without a shadow of a doubt, skinny. From our vantage point, and remember she was seated, she looked to be average in height (meaning, she didn’t look as though she would rise high out of her seat, but she didn’t look petite either). Her face was long and almost drawn, and her arms were sticks.
That’s all we could see. As we were finished our meal and just paying the bill we left almost immediately, but we were both uncomfortable with what we had witnessed and discussed it all the way back to the office. Our big concern was, what should we have done, if anything? Unfortunately, there’s really nothing you could have done.
Too little information, an overheard statement and conclusions based on assumptions. I’m not saying that whatever you thought was happening wasn’t. You and your colleague may be totally accurate in your evaluation of the circumstances.
However, you may just as easily have been o.
