Saw in person another reason not to be be fat and out of shape today — one I’d never considered.

There was a kid, maybe three years old, sprinting down the side of the road, out of control. His mother, who maybe weighed three hundred pounds, was “running” to catch him before he veered only the few short feet into the road. The kid was fast, but any capable adult could’ve caught him. I stopped my car altogether because I didn’t want any risk of hitting the little Usain.

I use “running” in quotes because the mother was so slow due to her weight that she took almost a full minute to reach the kid. That was a distance of only a few hundred feet. It would’ve only taken one inattentive driver and that kid moving a few feet into the a road that he would’ve been dead.

Note that this would still be true of mass transit because he could’ve just as easily sprinted away onto train tracks, or a bus route, etc.

I’d never thought of this but you can’t creditably watch your kid correctly if you’re fat, and many kids love to run away with no understanding of the risk. Again, any reasonably fit adult could’ve caught this kid within 10-20 feet.

But HAES, right? No, fuck all that noise.