Big Misconceptions

So as I sat yesterday at work doing absolutely nothing and waiting for my movie to buffer (don't you hate that!), I tried to think about what my next post should be about. The first thing that came to mind was common misconceptions that people have about bigger people. Okay so it was not the first, but I doubt if anyone actually reads this blog, they would want to hear about my obsession with nail polish. So lets just jump right in:

"You won't break me if you sit in my lap!"

So we all have those friends or people that sit in other peoples laps. Well lets just say that bigger people are always the one sitting on the actual piece of furniture. If not, we ask politely to change. Smaller people always say "you can sit on me!" (side note, that sounds weird out of context). My automatic reactions is I will  break those chicken legs! Then we argue about how I am being ridiculous and I wouldn't break them, etc. Okay, lets just look at the reality. If you have 125 lbs sitting on top of 250 lbs, it shouldn't be a problem with support. Let's just swap those around with the heavy one on top. The 150 lbs could not hold the 250 lbs for very long. So any argument made by the smaller person is irrelevant. Honey, I will always be too heavy to sit in your lap, and unless you have some super power that causes you to have steel legs, I will break you. 

"Why don't we go shopping!"

The dreaded sentence any big girl wants to hear. This means that you are going shopping at a place where you will most likely not be able to find anything that was not meant for 60 year old women who actually want an elastic waistband. This is our reality: the clothing industry was not meant for big people. They give us pants with elastic waistbands and shirts that literally look like a bag. And if you are lucky enough to find something it is most likely 25% more expensive than what your small friends found. I mean I get it, you are bigger so it takes more fabric to cover our back boobs. That is cool. I would really like my back boobs covered and not just hanging out to the world. But if I am going to be paying more, I would like to have a bigger selection and more options. 

"Let's go ride a roller coaster!"

Okay, let me stop you right there. I am VERY afraid of heights. I will not ever get in a steel car to be pulled to the top of a steel track to drop down and go flying around. That does not even come close to what I consider to be fun. But if you enjoy those things, have fun! But from a Big girl stand point, those metal cars are just a tad to small, and that includes the safety harness. If it takes me, the person sitting next to me, and the ride worker to get me into a harness, I feel like it is not going to hold me in very well when we do a flip. 

So, while I could go on, I feel that it would just bore you and cause you to stop reading. Those are my top 3 Big misconceptions in this small world we live in. 

Carry on, 

The Big Girl