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Oct 25, 2008 | 12:21 AM
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I'm certainly no underwear model, and I don't always eat what I should.  But, it's a good thing I'm not a fat slob with low self-esteem.  Because if I was, what happened to me this morning would have been psychologically devastating.

I stepped on the bathroom scale and... pop!  It cracked.  The part you're supposed to step on, cracked.  Stop laughing.  It's really not funny.  It was a new scale!  I'm just glad it wasn't my wife - she might have cried on the spot.

Now, maybe I shouldn't have had that second Pop Tart.  But, I weigh all of a buck-65 - and I'm the biggest person in the family!  Of course, that didn't stop the customer service clerk at Kohl's from cracking a smile.  I mean, c'mon.  The joke tells itself.  But, it's what the clerk told me next that really made me think.  The particular model of bathroom scale I was returning had been discontinued. 

Had this same thing happened to other people, I wondered?  What if they were big and heavy and self-conscious about their weight?  Can you imagine the emotional damage that could inflict on a person?  Talk about a nightmare for the scale's manufacturer.  That's like selling a mirror that makes people look ugly.  Or a psychiatrist who tells patients, "Man, you really are screwed up."  It's just not supposed to happen.

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desertwindrider read my blog view my photos
Oct 25, 2008 | 5:03 AM

Were these scales made in China?
F0x6Fan read my blog view my photos
Oct 25, 2008 | 9:18 AM

I'm guessing the limit on that scale was a buck-64. -just kidding!

:D
Only1Antoine read my blog
Oct 25, 2008 | 1:55 PM

It's funny for a little bit, but over and all, you probably would've fell and really hurt yourself, so that's the other part that really wouldn't make the situation funny anymore.

We as guys can take a laugh, because... well... we're guys. Just imagine if you were still in the bed sleeping and she was up and she stepped on the scale and the same thing happened to her as you said happened to you. I think it would've been more than crying. You probably would've heard screaming which DEFINITELY would've woke you up and jumping out of bed to see what happened.

In some cases as this one saying goes "Better you than me"; well, luckily let's just say "Better you than her". We're not going to get all hyper and freak out and panic. We have no reason to unless something really extremely bad has happened which is news no man or no woman wants to hear, but that's another story.

I guess maybe when you go back to work, you should get Katrina to interest you in a product test on all weight scale models from the standards to the electronics. It may not be all that serious, but unless you want that to happen again (which I know you don't), then you'll know which kind of scale you may have suggestions on getting the next time you go to a store and buy one if you haven't already got one.
Only1Antoine read my blog
Oct 25, 2008 | 2:04 PM

Man, I'm 207 pounds and I'm nowhere near fat. I have a little belly, but I'm trying to lose that. I'm just tall as ever. I may look fat in the picture due to the face of my picture (which I seriously need to update on when I get a new digital camera soon), but overall I'm just slim.

In other words, as everybody else likes to say when they are all trying to ribb me: "slinky", "jolly green giant", or "skin and bones". As for that Pop Tart, S'mores sounds good right about now. I really need to be weight lifting and six packing my stomach.

Anyone has any exercise equipment in their homes that don't mind letting me coming over to use to build up my muscles?
Centauri65 read my blog
Oct 25, 2008 | 8:14 PM

Try walking. I walk at lunch time every day. That and no soda. I have lost 25 pounds since July.
keepitreal11
Oct 27, 2008 | 1:23 PM

Funny! I give you credit for taking it back. I would have made one of my kids do it. Just like when I want seconds at a buffet...send the kids!
rasguy24 read my blog
Oct 27, 2008 | 2:04 PM

I gotta ask, Was it made in China?
Bryan_Polcyn read my blog view my photos
Oct 27, 2008 | 2:23 PM

I honestly don't know where it was made. I'll have to look when I get home.

It's a Taylor lithium electronic scale. I know some of Taylor's products are made in the USA, but I'm not sure if all of them are.
aaro-nf read my blog view my photos
Oct 27, 2008 | 5:14 PM

thanks for the post and great job on the posting of this blog, bryan_polcyn. that is too bad that had to happen to you. i suggest that you go to the y in milwaukee, and work out there in the winter time.

anyway, bryan_polcyn, i posted a blog called SMOKING BAN IN FOND DU LAC. feel free to read the blog and the information and feel free to post a comment on that blog. i would like to hear from you on that blog posting before you go on the air tonight. thanks.
Snowhawk read my blog view my photos
Oct 28, 2008 | 11:34 AM

I myself am in that "other" category. I am waiting for one of those talking scales to give me a message like, "Hey! Only one person at a time" or be more like a hovercraft with that dial spinning around.
I don't know about other people but if that would have happened I probably would still be laughing.
OK! Maybe it's not too healthy being overweight but there are times when you just have to laugh at certain situations and that would be one of them.
loripav read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2008 | 8:11 PM

I hope that you didn't pinch your feet in the crack.

Just a little thing that I would like to say is their are a lot of people who are over weight and do have low self-esteem. Sometimes they can't help them selves. I'm not affended, but their are thoes out there that are.
A_Jive_Soul_Bro read my blog view my photos
Nov 3, 2008 | 3:18 PM

My wife is very self-conscious, so I just told here to purge what she recently ate. She has since regained her size 2 figure.
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