Christmas is traditionally a time to be with friends and family but for various reasons this year I spent Christmas home alone – well, I had company in the form of small, furry creatures but no other people – and no I don’t have a rat infestation.

It was the first time in my life I’d ever been alone for Christmas and the idea was at first daunting – I imagined people’s reaction when I told them I’d spent Christmas alone.

Oh, the poor thing, does she have no friends or family? Or worse – Wow, what a loser!

But with a bit of planning I still had a very nice day and spoke to friends and family on the phone, some even sounded a tad jealous that I was doing what they wished to do but felt the need to go along with tradition.

And that got me thinking, why do some of us only get together with our loved ones at Christmas? Shouldn’t we be doing all that nice Christmassy stuff all year round?

Since I had a quiet Christmas I vowed to whoop it up for New Year and I did exactly that. After all I’m planning on having my best year yet so I wanted to bring in 2015 with plenty of hoopla and fanfare.

But still, I will make more of an effort to spend time with friends and family and to keep in touch all year, not just a concentrated effort around special occasions and holidays.

I also like to get as much as I can done in that ‘nothing’ time between Christmas and New Year.

That’s the time most people chill out and relax, maybe review their year and make plans and resolutions for the coming twelve months.

Not me, I like to go against convention and get my house, office and mindset organised and clean so I go into the new year uncluttered and ready for action.

This brings me to the business of resolutions. Many people aim for starting their new habits and rituals right on January 1^st and feel like they’ve failed if they start to waver a few days later.

I say ease into it. It doesn’t matter if you start a few days later. It doesn’t matter if you’re still partying on the 2^nd of January. There’s plenty of time to get it right and it’s more important than being rigid and starting on a given date.

What really matters is that you succeed in whatever it is you want to change. You’re not a failure if you start a few days later, be kind to yourself, change can be hard and if you find an easier way then more power to you.

So, for me, this year’s theme will be people and kindness. Putting in a bigger effort to connect and spend time with the people closest to me, as well as being of greater service to my wonderful clients and those I’ve yet to meet. And being kinder to myself, not being so regimented with my time, taking time to smell the roses.

I’d like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year and may we all stay safe and be good to ourselves, not just in the holiday season but all year round.

And for now I wish warm, crackling fires for those in the northern hemisphere and cool breezes and rain for those down here in the heat with me.

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At the risk of sounding as if I’m obsessed with Americans or picking on American culture, which I am so not, I want to take the opportunity at this time of year to talk about Halloween.

Perhaps I’m picking on Australian culture this time.

Ah Halloween. Only ten years ago it was just something to do with pumpkins, scary stuff, too much sugar and Americans. We didn’t even know what month it was in, or care. All we knew about Halloween was pumpkins with faces, the kind we don’t even grow here, and kids dressed up in costumes roaming the streets in search of sugar.

Now, it seems to have invaded our shores and there are Halloween masks and costumes in all the shops.

Halloween comes from the Celtic Feast of Samhain and appears to have been transplanted into North America when almost two million Irish people migrated there after the potato famine of 1845.

Australia didn’t have a huge influx of Irish migrants so it’s only now, with Australian popular culture having a tendency to copy all things American – let’s hope not – that we are seeing a rise in Halloween festivities.

Australia has its own unique culture and it disturbs me to see our kids blindly following American trends when they don’t understand them and they don’t make sense over here.

You only have to look at the Ice Bucket Challenge that made its way here during our winter, because the Americans were all doing it in what was their summer. I’d like to bet the Americans won’t be doing that in December or January.

Thankfully we don’t observe Thanksgiving and never will because that would really be absurd and meaningless to Australians. The idea of a day to be thankful has its merits – and I’m full of thanks because we don’t have Thanksgiving – but American Thanksgiving is, and means, much more than that.

So instead of the usual tinsel all over the shops in September it has now been delayed by all the Halloween paraphernalia, most of which is ignored by 90% of consumers. Some savvy markets have even started growing the large, orange jack-o’-lantern pumpkins, native to North America. Even our fruit and veggie departments aren’t immune.

What next, pumpkin pie? Why would anyone make a pie out of pumpkin? Pumpkin scones are more our style. As for canned pumpkin, let’s hope that never shows up on the shelves of Australian supermarkets.

Trick or treat? We’ve all seen this happen in the movies and in sitcoms but I’ve never seen anyone choose trick instead of giving in and handing over the goodies. The kids just say trick or treat and hold out their bags for more life-shortening, teeth-rotting, sugary rubbish. What if someone were to choose trick? Would the kids even know what to do? I don’t think they would, I don’t think anyone expects that answer.

Fortunately we are not as obsessive as the Americans about dressing up and bothering the neighbours, and I hope we never are. I won’t have to worry about random strangers in bizarre costumes knocking on my door and asking me to contribute to their diet-induced declining health – I live too far out of town.

Tonight there will be some people in my town dressing up and celebrating something they know nothing about, especially since Halloween falls on a Friday this year, and I feel for them because it’s currently 37 degrees Celsius and those costumes won’t be comfortable. Yet another reason for Australians not to bother with Halloween, it’s just too hot this time of year.

A happy Halloween to everyone around the world except those who don’t care and don’t celebrate it because, well, like me, they just don’t care (but it’s hard to ignore Google’s amusing cartoon videos today). No doubt the shops will be covered in Christmas decorations come Monday.

 

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Even though I live in Australia, most of the material I read and listen to is American, just like many of my clients, friends and colleagues.

That’s fine; I’m used to the American culture. I love the diversity of living in one country while being immersed in the culture of another; I have the best of both worlds.

The point of this story is that I’ve come to realise when Americans talk about people and events they are only referring to American people and events, as if they’ve forgotten that the rest of the world exists.

And have you ever noticed when you see a picture of planet Earth from space on any American TV show you can only see North and South America?

I’ve recently read blogs which declare, ‘as the world starts to wind down for winter’ and other mind-boggling statements.

Seriously? The world?

That’s interesting because half the world – including me – is currently enjoying glorious spring weather and looking forward to summer.

Does that mean these blog-post writers truly think the entire world is experiencing autumn – or fall, if you’re American – or are they just so arrogant they don’t care about the other half of the world?

Perhaps they think the Internet only encompasses America and its surrounds?

Even some well-known and, dare I say it, ‘should-know-better’ marketers send out emails mentioning the weather, when half the world has the opposite season happening, and quoting American statistics only.

Are they really so naïve they think only the Northern Hemisphere can read their emails or do they just not care?

When I and most non-Americans refer to people we mean everyone, not just the people in our own country. To us, people means everyone in the world, all people.

Americans seem to have an ‘us and them’ attitude.  Does U.S stand for United States or is it just US?

With well over 300 million people, Americans are the most insular folks I’ve ever come across. I don’t know if they just forget about the rest of the world or if they just prefer not to think about us but I do know it can make for some very frustrating conversations.

So why is it that I must keep reminding my amazing American peeps that they aren’t the only ones on the planet? Well, that’s not entirely true. They’ve heard enough from me to remember there are other people in the world. Must I single-handedly re-educate the American population?

So why are Americans so U.S-centric? I thought I’d do some research and try to nail down the exact time they thought the rest of the world didn’t matter.

It seems being insular is taught in schools with copious amounts of American history and very little, if any, non-American geography in the school curriculum. Children are encouraged to be disinterested and unconcerned and the U.S government surely doesn’t help when they declare America to be superior to the rest of the world.

For any Americans reading this, it just isn’t true. America is no better and no worse than anyone else, just different – and very indifferent.

Some have used the excuse that the country is so vast it’s not necessary to travel overseas or learn about other countries because they are so far away.

I live in Australia, also vast, and most Australians have some idea of the rest of the world and how it works and we’re very interested in other people and cultures. Our closest country is well over 2000km away yet at least 60% of Australians have passports compared to 30% of Americans. So that excuse just doesn’t cut it.

I think it must be a cultural influence and the way Americans are brought up.

In my opinion America needs to give more of a damn about the rest of the world if we are ever going to have world peace. I know there are other countries full of people who likewise don’t care, but Americans are more prominent and able to make change on a large scale. At almost 5% of the world’s population that’s too many apathetic citizens.

Until then I’m happy to educate my American friends or maybe just remind them sometimes, not that any of them are unduly insular, and do my part for international relations.

Personally, I’m tired of the attitude of Americans who think they are the only ones who matter and the attitude of the rest of the world who talk and laugh about the ‘ignorant Yanks.’ What we all need is solidarity.

I love being a part of the global village and I think everyone in the world has something valuable to contribute to society.

So, dear Americans, please join the rest of us in enjoying the whole, beautifully diverse planet and everything it has to offer, including all of US.

 

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I had planned to post something entirely different but after shopping in a different area on the weekend I felt compelled to write a piece on the direction we appear to be taking.

Last Saturday I thought I’d try a change of scenery and shop somewhere different. It was a huge supermarket with overflowing shelves and plenty of everything I could possibly need, but what caught my attention most was the brand new shopping trolleys.

No feral wheels with minds of their own on these babies. Not today would I pulling out my hair and cursing because that one wheel keeps jamming up and making the trolley go sideways. These trolleys did exactly what they were told, but what amazed me most was the cup holder on the handle. Yes that’s right, a cup holder.

Now, I’m not a fan of grocery shopping and the faster I can get in and get it done the better, but even if I feel like taking my time and browsing I’m pretty confident I can do it without needing to carry a drink with me.

What next? Little pop-up screens so I can be entertained by the movie of the day, or perhaps a documentary on good nutrition?

Whatever happened to being able to go out and do the shopping without the need to eat or drink until you got home? Millions of us survived for years doing just that and we’re not scarred for life, nor are we suffering the detrimental effects of dehydration from all that drink-free shopping.

New cars now have screens for all the passengers so they can watch TV while they’re travelling? There are screens in the gym when you’re working out, screens in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries, screens in restaurants (but not the ones I eat in). In fact anywhere people have to wait you’ll find a screen playing mind-numbing swill to anyone who’ll watch.

Remember when you used to look out the window on long car trips? That’s what you do when you’re travelling in a car. That’s why they have windows. Otherwise cars would be people-containers on wheels with just a window at the front for the driver.

We used to gaze out the window and watch the world go by. Think about our lives, make plans, and dream up new ideas.

When we grew tired of window-gazing we’d have a conversation with the other occupants of the vehicle.

Remember that lost art? Remember striking up a conversation with a complete stranger and being all the better for it?

Are we all so vacant now that our minds have lost the ability to entertain themselves without some sort of electronic doodad? And don’t even get me started on smart phones.

If you look out the car window while you’re travelling you’ll see a moving picture. It’s called the outside world – it’s what we live in and perhaps we should take more notice of it and let our minds wander more often. Who knows where it might take you? But be careful, it may just expand your mind.

And you won’t get thirsty while you’re roaming around inside your head so you won’t need a cup holder nearby.

It seems many people these days just cannot be alone with their thoughts. They must always have some sort of audible and visual stimulation. I thought that’s what imagination was. It is for me and it’s far superior to anything I could plug into externally.

The whole universe is inside my mind and I can do, be and have whatever I want whenever I want and as wild or fantastic as I want. There are no limits – my mind is the only limit. The constraints I let other people put on me are my only limits. And if I decide I need some external input, I’ll talk to someone and gain some insight into their mind.

You have to wonder if one day in the not-too-distant future people will be going to the cinema and watching the movie on their personal screen right in front of them.

Will they be there to watch the movie or just to sit in a big, darkened room getting their fix of external stimuli with others who can’t stand to be alone?

And you can bet that every seat will have its own cup holder.

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I live in a small country town, and I do mean small. There are about 400 people in the area. Since I’ve been living here I’ve noticed that a lot of the locals, the ones who’ve been here almost forever, do the same things all the time.

Day after day, week after week, year after year.

They don’t just do the same things, they think the same thoughts without ever stopping to question why.

These are the people I refer to as ‘on a loop’.

Their lives never change. They may not get any worse but they don’t get any better either.

They are sleepwalking robots imprisoned by their own subconscious patterns. Doomed to repeat the same actions and think the same things day after day until they die or something breaks the pattern.

The worst part is they don’t even know it. And it’s not just small town folk. People all over the planet are stuck in repetitive cycles of conditioning inherited from their parents and grandparents.

They are trapped by limiting beliefs they subconsciously picked up at an early age. Limiting beliefs that no longer serve them and keep them from realising their full potential.

An army of shuffling zombies, each one held captive in an invisible cage of futile habit.

It’s true that greatness is the culmination of small things done well every day.

If we want to be great we must do the little things regularly and having a daily schedule helps to get the mundane tasks completed but we should never just switch to auto-pilot and stay there.

Daily habits are essential to maintain our lives and keep the well-oiled machine running but other than those question everything.

Too many people live their lives doing things they’ve always done because “that’s the way we do it.”

Aren’t we all here to try to live up to our full potential? To really live?

Life isn’t something to be endured until you die.

Life is about pushing boundaries and testing your limits.

You don’t know what you’re truly capable of unless you try. Get out there and take some chances.

Start to question why you do what you do.

Is there a better way to do it?

Does it even need to be done?

Is it something I’m doing just because I’ve been doing it so long I can’t even remember why I’m doing it?

Does it bring me closer to my goals or am I doing it out of habit?

Re-examine your life and try to identify anything you’re doing that serves no good purpose or that you don’t enjoy doing.

Sure, there are some boring, maybe even unpleasant, things we have to do every day but those things help us to get  what we want and that makes them worth doing.

You might find you can do some things much more efficiently and stop doing some stuff altogether.

Do whatever it is you want to do. Do what makes you happy, not what you think is expected of you.

You only get one shot at life. Don’t live it on autopilot. Live it with reason and passion.

Make sure everything you do is to enhance your life and bring you closer to what you want, not because someone a long time ago told you it was the thing to do or because that’s what you’ve always done.

Question everything you do and if you don’t have a great reason for doing it then stop and replace it with something else.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”

― Henry Ford

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Being an Australian who spends a lot of time with Americans I can’t help noticing some of the peculiar expressions they use from time to time. I know they aren’t peculiar to the people who use them, just peculiar to someone who wasn’t raised in America.

Of course it’s just a cultural difference but because I’m also exposed to, and grew up with, Australians and their expressions, I tend to notice when someone says something that deviates from what I’m used to hearing, like most of us do.

Having said that, I’m starting to get used to these ‘Americanisms’ and indeed have incorporated some into my own vernacular. Other people often bring to my attention the fact  that I’m starting to sound less than Australian.

Asi es la vida, I say. Who says we have to speak one way or another? I just love other languages and cultures and I’ll speak however I like and you should too, although I am always mindful of what I say and how others might interpret it.

So, just for fun I thought I’d make a list of some of the things that Americans say that get my attention and remind me that we’re all different and life would be oh so boring if we weren’t.

The Dates Are Back To Front

This is more of an annoyance than anything since some dates makes sense when they’re backwards, such as 5/9 or 3/2. Now is that the fifth of September and the third of February? It is to me, but to an American it’s the ninth of May and the second of March.

I’ve had emails from American businesses wishing me a happy birthday on January 5th when my birthday is May 1st. All because I typed my birthday in their input forms as 1/5.

This is particularly confusing when you’re not sure of the website’s country of origin or don’t realise you’re on a U.S website (I believe some Canadians also do it).

Couple Dozen, Couple Anything Really

When in America leave out as many words and letters as possible seems to be what’s going on here. Instead of saying ‘a couple of dozen’ the of is left out. Isn’t that also the reason the ‘u‘ is missing from ‘colour’ and ‘honour’ etc., to save space and ink when printing? Is this why they leave out an entire word?

It always makes me want to edit and put in the missing word or letters.

Rescue Dog

The first time I heard this expression I had visions of a large, well-trained dog (think St Bernard) sniffing around and barking when he found something worthwhile. You know, helping  to find people after an avalanche  or locating earthquake victims buried under the rubble.

Boy, was I wrong? A rescue dog is one that has itself been rescued, usually from an animal shelter.

We generally don’t differentiate, they’re just called dogs.

Mom

I guess every country has a different take on this word. In Australia the word is mum. In parts of England it’s mam.

If the accent doesn’t give them away you can always tell when someone is American – they’ll have a mom.

Aluminum

Another case of leaving out letters considered to be superfluous, except this time you can hear the difference when the word is spoken.

When I was much younger it took me a while to realise that aluminum and aluminium were the same thing. I thought it was some strange substance that only occurred in America.

Lunch Sounds Like Launch

Depending on how strong the person’s accent is some Americans don’t have lunch, they have launch.

It used to give me the giggles listening to American speakers and one in particular had an accent so pronounced it was hard to understand him at all.

Sodder and Cauk

Speaking of accents, I’ve noticed some Americans don’t  enunciate the ‘L’ in words such as  ‘solder’ or ‘caulk’. This may be a throwback to the original pronunciation of ‘sawd’, the old English word for ‘solder’, and perhaps the same situation applies to ‘caulk’.

It does sound a little strange to non-American ears, although we all drop the ‘L’ sound in words such as ‘walk’, pronounced ‘wark’ in America, and ‘half’, pronounced ‘haff’ in the same country.

I have a Canadian friend who, even with coaching from me, just cannot say ‘Hawker’ the way I say it. It always sounds like ‘Harker’ instead of ‘Horker’.

Don’t get me wrong I am by no means ‘American-bashing’ and I must confess I love the sound of an American accent. It sounds so strange and exotic when you hear it in person amongst all the Australians. You get used to hearing it on TV and the Internet but when it’s right in your ear standing next to you it’s very hard to ignore.

And I’ve yet to meet an American who wasn’t as sweet as apple pie and thoroughly charming.

 

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Continuing on from my last post about our unique place in the Universe, it must be said that we may be one in a billion or more, or we could be the only ones on our optimal planet floating in an endless void. There’s also a good chance that we will never know.

While scientists are trying to find and make contact with other life forms, it is probable that there is another planet, or planets, with some form of life. However we must consider the possibility that we are all alone.

Even with the knowledge that the Earth’s first form of life must have come from somewhere else in the Universe, we may just be the result of a unique and perfect storm that created and sustained life.

With all this talk of global warming and the decimation of our planet we must also consider that this is exactly how it should be. How do we know that this isn’t the way it all unfolds?

Perhaps we are here to grow and evolve as a species, as indeed we have, and when our sun grows old and starts to die we have had enough time to discover the secrets of the Universe and find an alternative home and the means to get there.

Who knows? This may be the master plan. Earth is where we originate and grow up, but where we mature may be somewhere else completely.

All this, of course, will take millions of years but to the Universe that is merely a blink of an eye.

We have 5 billion years before the habitable zone – where it’s not too hot and not too cold – becomes uninhabitable and we need to either move the planet – don’t laugh, it’s being investigated as we speak – or find a way to move everyone and everything of value off the planet and into a new solar system or maybe a new galaxy.

It’s a good thing we have plenty of time because it will be a mammoth undertaking of the most gargantuan proportions.

And, of course, we must allow for the chance that something else will threaten the safety of Earth long before the Sun starts to wind down. Perhaps a collision with a large heavenly body such as an asteroid or another planet will take us out in the next few million years.

My point is that we need to still exist when all this goes down.

Either way we’ll fulfil our destiny whether that’s being wiped out prematurely or travelling the Universe in search of a new home.

If we want to be here in a few billion years we need to attend to our self-preservation right now as well as the preservation of other species. We can’t jump ship until there’s another ship on which to jump.

We won’t be around to see the views from our new home but I’d like to think our descendants will. We are creating and gathering ideas in leaps and bounds and technology is evolving at an astounding rate.

Who knows what we’ll be able to do as long as the most intelligent species on the planet stays that way and doesn’t succumb to the petty squabbling that may end us long before anything else does.

 

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Have you ever stopped to consider our position in the Universe? To consider the fact that, as far as we know right now, we are very much alone in a vast and inhospitable place?

Not only is this the one planet within light years that has the perfect environment but we are perfectly adapted to this environment.

If we were to step off the planet there is nowhere else for us to go. The Universe, as beautiful as it is, offers us nothing but death, the way fish in an aquarium cannot stray from the tank without dying. And so we are prisoners of Mother Earth and, like it or not, we’d better learn to get along and look after the only place in the Universe we can call home.

Just as a small child grows up and learns he isn’t the centre of the Universe, we now know that we, as a people, are just a tiny speck in an infinite expanding system where time and space become one.

Our Earth, however, is central to our survival yet we continue to trash the planet and wipe out ourselves and other species.

We are all we have in our ideal self-contained world floating through a very desolate and hostile Universe.

Thinking about the vastness of all that surrounds our planet really puts things into perspective and makes you appreciate just how beautiful and perfect this world is. No other planet in our solar system has the rich plant and animal life that has evolved through being in the habitable zone; not too close to our sun but not too far either.

We’ve come a long way, especially in the last 100 years, but as the most intelligent life-form on the planet we can be so childish and petty. We need to step back and look at the big picture, to view our existence through a wide angle lens. We need to appreciate just how unique and precious everything is, for it surely isn’t duplicated anywhere else that we know of.

So did we get extremely lucky? You bet we did.

How about we show a little gratitude and respect for the other inhabitants of our planet, no matter what form they take – they got lucky too.

Take a look around, and then take a look around the Universe. Why would you want to live anywhere else, even if you could?

 

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Whenever I’m feeling a bit flat and overwhelmed by all the things I have to do I read from a list of inspiring quotes to lift me up and remind me that my goals are achievable. Just by spending some quiet time reading these quotes I can rev up my motivation and quickly knock off some of those tasks that are holding up my productivity.

Coupled with some stimulating music or motivational speeches on my headphones and I’m ready for anything.

I hope you find these quotes useful and uplifting.

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve; the fear of failure.”

~Paulo Coelho

 

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

~Mary Anne Radmacher

 

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

~David Viscott

 

 “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”

~Lloyd Jones

 

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

~Robert F. Kennedy

 

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

~Viktor E. Frankl

 

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”

~Wayne Dyer

 

“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.”

~Author Unknown

 

“No one ever excused his way to success.”

~Dave Del Dotto

 

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From time to time, well regularly, I make observations about everyday life that are somewhat out of the box but always enlightening, and entertaining, for the people who are with me. Yes, there is rolling of the eyes and mutterings about me being ‘at it’ again but that’s normal for them.

One such musing came to me a few days ago while we were waiting at a certain well-known fast food establishment – believe me, nothing  was fast there and the ‘food’, well it’s only a generic term in this case. It is ‘food’ by definition but there are more appropriate words you could use to refer to it. We’ll stick with ‘food’  here for the purpose of clarity.

I was in the car park watching people go through the drive-thru and it occurred to me that the heavier the person the more likely it was they would opt for staying in their car and having their food handed to them through the car window.

Now, having done my fair share of time working behind the bar in pubs , I couldn’t help but draw a comparison between overweight people at fast food restaurants – I use that term loosely here also– and drunks in pubs. Even gamblers in casinos and at race tracks and wherever else they habitually lose money.

When someone has had too much to drink at the pub it is the barperson’s responsibility to stop serving them alcohol. It’s in the interests of the drunk and the people around him/her. Possibly  in some places gamblers are asked to leave once they’ve lost a specific amount of money but what about obese people stuffing their faces at fast food joints? Should they be asked to leave when they’ve had too much? Should there be a set of scales that must be stood on to get in the door?

Hard to police I would imagine but shouldn’t there be some duty of care in these circumstances. I’ve witnessed people going back for seconds and thirds. These people are clearly out of control and should be refused service. As above, it’s in the interests of the people concerned, their families and the surrounding diners. What about civil liberties I hear you scream? Oh, but it’s ok for governments to put chemicals in our food and water supply for ‘our own good’?

Of course, like the drunks, the gamblers, and even the ‘doctor shoppers’ they are free to go elsewhere and get their ‘fix’. Perhaps it’s time people took a little – or a lot – of responsibility for themselves and their behavior. Just because it’s there doesn’t mean you have to indulge in it. Or does it keep health workers in jobs?

Maybe that’s why those people use the drive-thru instead of getting out  of the car and going inside. You can hide a lot of excess calories if you’re sitting in a car.

It’s just a thought I had, but  a little self-discipline goes a long way. I’m not the fat police. Speaking of fat police, that’s one more of my observations. Maybe some other time.

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