Friday, January 15, 2010

How Many Points is That?


Before I came to live with her, Linda used to be a Weight Watcher leader. She would weigh people and help them lose weight. After the weigh-in, she would give a 3o-minute pep talk about drinking lots of water and not scarfing down Milky Ways. She liked it at first but she eventually got tired of counting all those points and checking off all those little boxes. There was one lady who used to take off her dress right in the middle of the meeting room before she weighed in. Another person would take off her wedding rings and watch before she weighed. She saw all sorts of crazy stuff, but never experienced what happened in a meeting room in Sweden. Twenty members were standing in line waiting for their turn on the scale. All of a sudden the floor gave way and crashed in! Sewage pipes broke and a horrible stink started wafting through the room. WW workers moved the scales out in to the hallway of the building and they continued to weigh people in!