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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2017-08-12 2:43 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 8/12/2017 11:40 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-08-12 12:51 PM, wrote:
>>> On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 9:00:09 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> She does get excluded from a lot of events for a couple reasons. One is
>>>> that she and her husband are quite a bit older. Making a pig of
>>>> herself
>>>> is another one. She once dropped in on her step sister, who was
>>>> expecting company... invited company. Step sister was a very generous
>>>> hostess who loved to prepare lots of good food when entertaining. BN
>>>> was invited to stay and then she ate all the food before the guests
>>>> arrived.
>>>>
>>> I would have had to speak up and say "STOP! You're not going to eat
>>> e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g before the guests arrive." I truly would have
>>> said that to her.
>>
>> Sounds good, but you really should not have to say that to a guest,
>> especially an uninvited one. I got into enough trouble with her when she
>> was a teen and especially sensitive. I leave it to her mother to deal
>> with it. She knows her daughter has a problem. She knows that I have a
>> problem with her daughter, and she is sympathetic. I simply try to avoid
>> having anything deal with her.
>>
>>
>>>> She is 6 feet tall and probably about 350. About 2 years ago she
>>>> had to
>>>> lose 75 pounds to get a hip replacement. She has since gained it all
>>>> back.
>>
>>> Why doesn't she go in for the stomach reducing surgery? How big is
>>> her husband? Are they both the size of an adult rhinoceros??
>>
>> He is about the same size. They met at a big and tall club. His food
>> intake is more normal than hers.
>>
>> Considering how much she eats, I am surprised that she is not a hell of
>> a lot bigger than she is. It is not her size that is the issue. It is
>> her obsession with eating. It is a pain in the ass to have to invite her
>> to family functions and then to have to go to the work and expense to
>> provide twice as much food for a gathering when one person eats enough
>> for 6 or more. And it annoying as hell to go onto the kitchen for
>> something and find her opening a box of crackers of cookies in the
>> pantry when there is all sorts of food out. Who, in their right mind,
>> attends a social function in someone's home and sneaks away from the
>> food service to root around for more food?
>>
>>
>
>
> Surely this is the makings of an episode of Law and Order.

It is more like a pest control reality show. You put out food for guests
and the vermin sneak into your pantry to steal more.