Awareness

Today, I ran into Kroger for a last minute purchase. Since I only had 1 item, I quickly secured my spot in the 15 items or less aisle. I was paying for my item (It was Veg-All, all right? Geesh!) when the cashier looks at the man 2 people behind me and his completely full cart and says "Sir, I believe you have too much." The man responded "You don't know how to count." Now, that alone is cause for me to say something as his cart was clearly TOO FULL. But, I stayed out of it because it really wasn't my business. The man then continues "Did you mean in my cart or around my belly?" The cashier said "In your cart." And the man KEEPS GOING "Well, I was gonna say, you're one to talk.....SKINNY." Now, unfortunately, my cashier was very, very overweight. I just wanted to crawl into my skin, but then in an amazing display of complete lack of self awareness or a quick thinking self-protection act, my cashier says "I wish...I just had surgery and I lost 15 pounds and I know I need to lose a little more..." And she went on and on.

By this time, I'm just standing there completely amazed and disgusted at this man who felt it was his right to not just attack her intelligence but her physical appearance. ESPECIALLY when he obviously was not the smartest or the healthiest based on the amount of bagged chips in his cart. UGH! I feel pretty bad for not saying anything. What would you have done?