Plus size? Better increase the size of your wallet too.

I recently read an online article about how some stores have started charging more for plus-size clothes. Of course I instantly had an opinion, but as I’ve started to write this post I’ve started thinking that this really could go either way on the offending people or not offending people front. It may start a debate (hello readers if you’re out there leave comments!) or you might just all agree with me!

So here goes. My first reaction was, that’s very unfair and bordering on discrimination. My further thoughts were, well when you’re in a restaurant you pay more for a main meal than you do for an entree because it is more food, same with a small coffee vs a large coffee. So in the case of plus-size clothes you are using more material. Right? Quite possibly, but is it really necessary for larger women to have to pay more for their clothes?

Actually no, I don’t think it’s ok. I passed this question around the office guys and they made the point that  there is no difference in price in mens’ clothing from a Small to a XXXL so there you go, the store in question isn’t discriminating against larger people they are discriminating against larger women.

The article claimed that the store normally absorbed the extra costs for plus-sized clothing, but occasionally had to pass in onto the consumer. So why not always pass it onto the consumer in the first place and then that’s just how it would be and that’s what people would expect, as opposed to not doing it and then introducing it and upsetting people?

Am I a plus-size person I hear you ask. No I’m not. So does that mean I don’t have the right to comment on this issue, because maybe it doesn’t bother plus-size people? Maybe? So why don’t you tell me what you think!

The drivers we love to hate

We’ve all got Pet Hates. Some people have their top 3 that tick them off the most, some people have their top 10 and me, well, I just have lots!

One of them is bad drivers. Bad drivers, I hear you say. Everyone hates bad drivers. So let me get more specific. I hate bad drivers that have fast cars, take off slowly then go a bit faster then slow down again. Yep that’s exactly what happened to me and as you might be able to tell it ticked me off to no end!

Here I was in the FAST lane and behind an Audi TT. We were doing 40 in a 70 zone. I couldn’t go round coz there was a Grandma in the left hand lane. I breathed a sigh of relief when Mr Audi sped up to 60. Better than 40 I thought. So we then get to some traffic lights and he takes off slower than a drunk snail and I find myself becoming increasingly irritated. We finally get to about 65 and then he takes off like someone just stuck a rocket ship up his exhaust pipe.

So let’s take a minute to think about all the scenarios of why this guy was such a (insert explitive here).

A. He was just being a d*%k.

B. He had no idea how to drive his car.

C. He was just a really bad driver.

D. He was precious about his precious car.

You know really at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed on the roads, no matter how nice their car is.

Well I’m glad I got that off my chest!

Shopping centreitis

So we went shopping on Saturday, nothing too out of the ordinary or dramatic you would think. Think again! For some reason everyone and everything totally annoyed the crap out of not just me but my other half as well! Let me just clarify, we went there to shop, not to just pick something up and try and get out of there.

Firstly, we both found ourselves getting very annoyed with the extremely slow pace people chose to walk at around the shopping centre. I didn’t think we were ‘hooning’ around, but maybe we missed the memo that you now walk around a shopping centre abnormally slow?