Originally Posted by
LawrenceMD 
I just got back from a long road trip to from Brooklyn to Key West Florida. My wife wanted to stop in Orlando on the way back to go to Sea World.
Sea World itself was actually awesome, surprisingly good food (I ate salads but even the salads were great), rode the roller coasters, and sea animals are awesome.
But what pisses me off, or actually makes me really sad:
the amount of morbid obesity. there must have been at least 100 morbidly obese people on mobility scooters throughout the park... and well.
..hundreds of other morbidly obese throughout the park. Often times whole families from kids to grandparents all obese.
my estimation is that the obese consisted of about 98% americans.
we were watching the Killer Whale show at shamu stadium and sitting in the "splash zone". there are two rows of seating for "handicap companions" in front of a large platform to where wheelchairs and mobility scooters can be parked. The whole area was crammed with mobility scooters and about two people in wheelchairs.
the show was about to start and the two rows of "handicap companions" was sparingly filled (sadly with mostly obese people who were with their handicapped companions). and the rest of the stadium was filled to the brim.
a Indian family walks in and politely asks if they can sit in the handicap companion seats... and the people in the scooters and their companions start to loudly berate the Indian family because "THOSE SEATS ARE FOR HANDICAPPED COMPANIONS ONLY!"
My wife looks back and whispers to me:
"
Those people on scooters aren't even really handicapped... they're just too fat to walk"
I kind of shush my wife and realize that she's totally right. Its not like those people on scooters are war veterans with missing limbs, they are handicapped because they are morbidly obese which is 95% of the time because of their own vices.