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This is about a former coworker of mine. I've posted about her before. Maybe you remember. She thinks everyone needs to hear her commentary on their choice of diet, exercise, and cell phone choice. Here's something else she's prone to doing.
Her: Hey guywithashovel, how ya doin today? (approaching my desk)
Me: I'm fine. I've just been . . . .
Her: (cutting me off when she sees the can of Mountain Dew or Pepsi on my desk) Oh, are you drinking that?!?
Me: Um, yeah.
Her: Oh, I NEVER drink sodas. I don't think I've had one in six years. (looking around to make sure at least two other people heard her say that)
Me: Well, I just needed a caffeine boost.
Her: I don't think I could even think about drinking one. I almost can't even look at a can of soda now because I never drink it anymore because I always try to eat healthy.
Side note: She'll devour "pizza place" pizza if given the chance, and she drinks alcohol on a regular basis. Yet somehow in her mind, that's healthier than eating "fast food" and drinking sodas.
And yes, I realize this is an issue of "food snobs," which has been touched on in a few other threads.
Anyway, I'll overhear her later on that day talking to someone else about how she was floored to see that can of soda on my desk because she's so advanced in her healthy diet and it's been so long since she's drank "that stuff and she can't hardly stand to look at it now." (I'm really not kidding about this)
What gets me about this isn't just that it's annoying to have the calorie content or the supposed "healthiness" of your food scrutinized constantly. It's that she doesn't blink an eye about harping about how healthy her lifestyle is when she's actually pretty careless in other aspects of her life. The summer before last, she had several unpaid speeding tickets and consequently there was a warrant out for her arrest. She's also not above blowing a whole paycheck on expensive designer clothes because "everyone's already seen me in the clothes I have now."
Sure, maybe I don't eat all of the foods that you deem "healthy" (though most of what I eat actually is good for me), and maybe I do consume Coke, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew on occasion, but at least I don't get traffic tickets and then neglect to pay them and risk getting thrown in jail---because here, if you get caught with unpaid speeding tickets, they really will arrest you and throw you in jail like a common criminal, as my poor cousin found out the hard way.
Of course, the fact that this represents a "trendy health concern" is also irksome. Throughout the 90s, fat was what everyone worried about, and commericals were always telling us about this great food that was "fat free." Then, in the 2000s, it was all about carbs. Apparently, now that the 2010s are picking up steam, sugar is the new whipping boy (seems to be, anyway), which means we're getting a bunch of people all smug about the fact that they don't drink soda or eat/drink such and such item with sugar in it and that's supposed to make up for the fact that they just wolfed down a whole bucket of fried chicken. But I digress.
Anyway, despite all this, we have to listen to her talk about how awesome she is because of her healthy diet, the fact that she runs everyday, her primo choice of electronics (always has to have the latest cell phone---if you have an older one, especially a "flipper phone," you'll hear from her), and the fact that she's always dressed to the nines. I guess that overrides her inability to follow traffic laws and manage her finances.
Her: Hey guywithashovel, how ya doin today? (approaching my desk)
Me: I'm fine. I've just been . . . .
Her: (cutting me off when she sees the can of Mountain Dew or Pepsi on my desk) Oh, are you drinking that?!?
Me: Um, yeah.
Her: Oh, I NEVER drink sodas. I don't think I've had one in six years. (looking around to make sure at least two other people heard her say that)
Me: Well, I just needed a caffeine boost.
Her: I don't think I could even think about drinking one. I almost can't even look at a can of soda now because I never drink it anymore because I always try to eat healthy.
Side note: She'll devour "pizza place" pizza if given the chance, and she drinks alcohol on a regular basis. Yet somehow in her mind, that's healthier than eating "fast food" and drinking sodas.
And yes, I realize this is an issue of "food snobs," which has been touched on in a few other threads.
Anyway, I'll overhear her later on that day talking to someone else about how she was floored to see that can of soda on my desk because she's so advanced in her healthy diet and it's been so long since she's drank "that stuff and she can't hardly stand to look at it now." (I'm really not kidding about this)
What gets me about this isn't just that it's annoying to have the calorie content or the supposed "healthiness" of your food scrutinized constantly. It's that she doesn't blink an eye about harping about how healthy her lifestyle is when she's actually pretty careless in other aspects of her life. The summer before last, she had several unpaid speeding tickets and consequently there was a warrant out for her arrest. She's also not above blowing a whole paycheck on expensive designer clothes because "everyone's already seen me in the clothes I have now."
Sure, maybe I don't eat all of the foods that you deem "healthy" (though most of what I eat actually is good for me), and maybe I do consume Coke, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew on occasion, but at least I don't get traffic tickets and then neglect to pay them and risk getting thrown in jail---because here, if you get caught with unpaid speeding tickets, they really will arrest you and throw you in jail like a common criminal, as my poor cousin found out the hard way.
Of course, the fact that this represents a "trendy health concern" is also irksome. Throughout the 90s, fat was what everyone worried about, and commericals were always telling us about this great food that was "fat free." Then, in the 2000s, it was all about carbs. Apparently, now that the 2010s are picking up steam, sugar is the new whipping boy (seems to be, anyway), which means we're getting a bunch of people all smug about the fact that they don't drink soda or eat/drink such and such item with sugar in it and that's supposed to make up for the fact that they just wolfed down a whole bucket of fried chicken. But I digress.
Anyway, despite all this, we have to listen to her talk about how awesome she is because of her healthy diet, the fact that she runs everyday, her primo choice of electronics (always has to have the latest cell phone---if you have an older one, especially a "flipper phone," you'll hear from her), and the fact that she's always dressed to the nines. I guess that overrides her inability to follow traffic laws and manage her finances.
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