I decided to go get a haircut earlier today. My grandfather wanted one too so he went with me. I went to this barbershop that we've been going to for 2+ yearsand was getting my hair cut and he came and set down. The owner/manager of the place, I don't really know what he was, was on the phone and then hangs up and proceeds to tell my grandfather he's going to have to leave. Why might you ask? Because my grandfather is obese. He tells my grandfather and I quote, "sir, you're going to have to leave, I can't make my people cut your kind's hair." I emphasize "your kind". So he leaves and doesn't say anything.

I'm a respected member of my community and have some pull considering I'm neighbors and very close friends with the police chief. I get up and pay the girl who was doing the cutting, real nice girl, and I look over at the guy and tell him he's not getting anymore of my business or anybody else that I know of. He tells me "good, that's okay because I don't want your business, I don't like his kind." So I tell him he'll be speaking to my lawyer soon because he was segregating against a person who had done nothing wrong and just wanted a haircut. But no...he had to be a pompus a*shole and say no, he doesn't serve "his kind".

I didn't know we were in a caste system. I mean are obese people like Jewish people in 1930's Germany? Are they to be cast out and ignored? Are they to be persecuted against simply because they're obese? While we're at it, why don't we just take out all the skinny people and tell them they can't go to certain places. Let's go and tell black people they have to go to seperate schools again. Let's tell Mexicans they cannot eat at our restaurants. Let's tell smokers they have to stay in their own homes. Why don't we just take the entire American country and divide it up into sections for each individual race/religion/heritage/health situation and everything else. Let's give each little group their own peace of the land and say "this is your area, you cannot leave it". Because that is what the world is coming to.

Besides being pissed for the guy being a four letter word in the first place, there was no sign saying "we reserve the right to refuse service." On top of this, I have been going there for over two years. He has been going there for over two years. And now this guy is going to be an as*hole and say no. This goes beyond just a little incident. The guy calls the cops on me and nearly has me thrown in jail because I was "disturbing the peace". By all means, when does telling the truth disturb the peace? When does calling out something that is wrong disturb the peace? If anything, I'm helping the damn peace! Who the hell made anyone a god and give them the power to dictate what can or cannot be done?! Since when do people say "I don't want to serve you because you're fat, get out." Since when do we tell red blooded Americans they do not have the same rights as any other person? Our history is filled full of injustices against different groups in society. It happened to the Indians two hundred years ago. It happened to the Japanese 70 years ago. It happened to the African Americans 50 years ago going back to before America was a country. But now we're going to discriminate someone, not based off race, but based on their size and their health status.

This is getting worse by the day though. Now obese people have to buy two plain tickets? What was that excuse...because they cost more in gas. Can anybody say bullsh*t? I know I sure as hell can. Get me a good lawyer, and I'll challenge that policy. That's blatant discrimination and personally, what I call humiliation and harrasment. These airlines say they don't discriminate...that's like saying "We like you sir, but because you're fat, you have to buy two tickets." So the next time a tall person comes in, they should have to buy two tickets considering their legs are so long they might hit the seat in front of them.

I have a lot of problems with the world we live in. I say we're just screwing each other for no other purpose than our personal pleasure or gain. Our kids are growing up and seeing this stuff about how obese people are bad and how they're not as good as "regular" people. Now what does that tell the future generations? I feel sorry for my children who will have to grow up in an intolerant world. V for Vendetta comes out later this year about a world that's socilaist and intolerant. It's fictional, but guess what, we're living in the beginnings of that world. Give it another hundred years before we're herding obese people into "fat camps" where they're forced to lose weight. And people wonder why the suicide rate is rising. Why live in a world that doesn't want you?