The Fat Gurl Chronicles

     On my last post I talked about how plus-sized ladies have to deal with comments, questions and advice from people who feel they know how it is to live our lives and therefore can advice us on the best way to do so even though they haven’t dealt with what we go through everyday because of our size. Total strangers coming up to you to query your lifestyle choice because you are not small sized , having to defend yourself to people whose opinions shouldn’t even matter in the first place because it is your body and no one else has a right to deciding how it should be.Today I am going to be sharing with you all a similar occurrence that happened in my presence to an acquaintance  at the most unlikely place and for the strangest reason.
     No one is a stranger to fruit salad, when we combine different kinds of fresh fruits, any of our favorite nuts and heavy cream to make a delicious appetizer, very yummy especially when refrigerated. 

Okay so back to my experience, if you are Nigerian like me then you are definitely familiar with those stores that sell the fruits in pre-packaged containers for people to buy.Well on our way home we decided to patronize a lady selling fruit salad at a nearby store and my acquaintance requested for extra groundnut and heavy cream to be added to her package for which she was going to pay the woman and to my absolute surprise this lady actually told her in pidgin English “ ah ah you no Dey watch your weight ", I was very shocked because she was actually buying fruits and we are always “advised”to eat fruits and stop eating heavy foods even if they do not know what constitutes our daily meal plan and this is a seller of fruits still advising her to watch her weight. It was really funny and annoying to me at the same time and I elected not to purchase fruit salad from her anymore from that day forward. I still have a lot of experience from different people about my weight but I want to hear from you also about the unlikely places where you have been told that you are too big or too fat for certain things or reasons so please like and engage.