WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAT CHICKS GONE?

OK, so that is TOTALLY not politically correct and that has been what has been keeping me from writing this since our first day in Palo Alto. Not because I am offended by it, but because I am part of the group! I embrace that I can not wear men's slacks because my rear/hips will not allow it. A friend of mine recently said "I would rather eat cake than be thin." HELLO! I am a part of that parade. That being said, I can appreciate that other folks might not appreciate the directness of the question. Still I must ask, "Where are the fat chicks in Northern California??" Where are the women that look like me???? Where are those big-bottomed girls?

Perhaps you don't like the word fat? Feel free to substitute "wide in the hips," "round," "ample," "voluptuous," or my favorite "rubenesque." Regardless of the word you choose, that word really doesn't describe the women in Palo Alto. There were fat men, plenty of those, but not a whole lot of fat women.

Yeah, they are not in Palo Alto. I started keeping a tally. The tally started with the motorcycles vs. the vespas and then just sort of carried over to the ample chicks. By Thursday The Girl was helping me keep track, it took that level of eagle eye effort to find these women.

Day One: Tuesday night in downtown Mountain View, 1. It was the end of the day and I had just realized the discrepancy
Day Two: 1 while we were out and about. 2 on street bicycles who were really moving along the road.
Day Three: 3 or 4 on foot in downtown Palo Alto over the course of the day.
Day Four: Several who were getting off their bicycles to stop at Starbucks. They were older women and I give older women some slack in terms of being a little wide in the hips.
Day Five: We stopped counting but did see a couple "here and there."

Total: Around 15

15 fat women over the course of 5 days!!! Is Northern California not aware of the obesity crisis in the country? Is the rest of the country not aware of Northern California?? Somebody help me out here!

A couple of things. I will say that the bigger gals who were on their bikes did have on actual bike gear. So, I view that as a great thing, a girl can get Lycra and cycle shirt in her size if she wants to wear it. In addition, the gals I saw were all dressed very stylishly (even the ones in bike gear), no one had anything fantastically tight or something with sparkly words across their rear-end. And, of the ample women I saw none were morbidly obese, they were really just ample ~ I guess I could squeeze myself into that sub group. After talking to The Girl we figured in our non-empirical data discussion that folks are really just out and about all the time!!! The sun is always shining (that mercilessly cloudless sky thing) and folks are always walking/biking/moving. In our little town of Palo Alto there were many, many restaurants and many, many coffee houses, bakeries and yummy food shops but we didn't see one fast food joint. I am sure they have to be there, so close to a college campus and all, but we didn't see any glaring out at us. There are four grocery stores within a bicycle ride and at least two of them are organic grocery stores. Maybe fat women just get smaller when they move to California??? I don't know. I guess I will report back on this topic in three to five months.

I will say that when we flew home we had a layover in Vegas. Apparently that is where all of the fat women are. Plentiful fat chicks, ranging from a little ample to morbidly obese. Some of those gals had sparkly things written across their rear-ends. Very Vegas. Very Americana!!!

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