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Overweight Reasons

Janet Kuypers
6/2/12

An obscenely overweight woman
parked the Kmart brand electric wheelchair
at the front of the store
while her fat daughter watched.
Her son came walking over from the check-out line
(who looked like he was seven months pregnant)
and told her,
“We’re only fifty nine cents short
of getting a Kmart five dollar gift card!”
And the obscenely overweight mom replied,
“Why didn’t you buy a candy bar then?”
And I thought of three overweight reasons
why he shouldn’t have,
but I couldn’t say it. I wouldn’t say it.


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