“I think your pain must have caused you to take personal offense at the woman's need to have her groceries bagged?”

I didn’t take offense at her “need to have her groceries bagged.” I took offense at her need to block the checkout line aisle while doing it. When I am at the checkout stand at the grocery store, and I get my receipt back from the checker, I automatically step out of the line, around to my cart where the bagger is bagging things, so I’m OUT OF THE WAY. Why should a whole line of other people be held up because of me? I’m actually aware that there are other people in the store who might like to get their transaction done, too. Why is that much courtesy impossible for others?

“…regardless of what part of her body others think is fat and how slow a person is it doesn't give others the right to instigate a fight by telling someone if they had only moved their fat ***.”

I didn’t instigate a fight. I made a comment that she chose to take offense at. If a fight ensued, it was her choice to start it. Her reaction to my comment motivated her verbal attack on me. I said one very accurate sentence. She chose to make an issue of it, going into a tirade. WAAAY overreacting.

“What if the person behind you had been just as impatient…”

He was, actually. He looked like he had back problems, too. He was hanging onto things, squatting down, etc., like he was in pain. I recognize the behavior, having back problems myself. We both wanted to get out of there.

“.. you would not have liked it because that person would be subjecting you to a derogatory and rude comment about your own body and the fact that you could not move any faster at that moment.”

Ah, but she could have moved. She chose not to. It’s the California mentality – they’ve all got entitlement problems here. She felt entitled to block the aisle with her fat ***, even though she had a very simple and logical choice of stepping aside, next to her cart, while the bagger bagged her stuff, so that a long line of people didn’t have to be held up by her. I always think that kind of rudeness results from lack of personal power. If she feels powerless, and holding up a whole line of people makes her feel like she has power, then she doesn’t care how rude she is, she’ll do it.

I will admit to being rude, making a comment about her fat ***. But I am NOT wrong to think that she should have taken the one lousy step that would have gotten her fat *** out of the way, so that other people could do their transactions. I do. Why can’t she?