Some girls.........some fellas.....

Am in our local PC, terminally liberal Food Cooperative Cafe. The usual cheap guy, sucking up the free wifi and dollar endless coffees. The sort of place, so liberal (VERY liberal), where most of the clientel are either trust fund babies, or wanabees of same. The richer they are, the shabbier the glad rag threads. We've all seen these folks. We've heard them as well. At the local market elsewhere, for every day folks, frozen at sea flounder, on sale, can be had for under $5 USD per pound. The shishi beautiful people here complain endlessly about the prices, but are happy to fork over $12 for the same item. Rest of the products are priced to shock as well. And don't even ask about the huge naturopathic and homeopathic self medication sections. Just looked at a tiny bottle of "Rescue Energy"- "fatigue remedy" 20 ml. for $20. I've been trying forever, as a public health pilot demonstration project, to have this place use the test kitchen to put on teaching courses for the less fortunate, where they could learn to prepare wholesome, organic, relatively value dishes, based on diets in much of the non western world. Beans, rices, fruits, etc could be in the bulk bins at loss leader pricing. Most of these folks are receiving public assistence, and their family cultures have them eating costly, greasy, sugary empty calories, chock ful of artificial coloring. Wrapped in tons of paper and plastics. Salted until hard. Washed down with fructose laden soft drinks. I'll keep trying. Anyway, this Barrista here has been married since Oct. 6th. How do we ALL know. She never stops talking about it. At over 80 decibels. And, as an astute and critical people watcher, I notice that she is quite obese, and physically quite -------. Got me wondering about how often this gestalt of lady seem to talk so loudly. Attracting attention, in a counterphobic fashion. Is there a dynamic here? Perhaps same as for mouthy little guys, present company of course excepted.