On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:58:14 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> ravenlynne > wrote:
>
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>> Reminds me of an aunt...she'd never eat in front of us...nothing fit
>> into her diet...she couldn't have this, that, or whatever. Then we'd
>> walk into the kitchen and see her inhaling something...junk food,
>> whatever and she'd just give us this guilty look.
>
>Sad but sometimes true. My office partner had a stepmother that only
>ate one meal a day. When people looked at how much she put down, she
>would explain that it was her only meal of the day. She spent the rest
>of the day in front of the fridge, eating. That wasn't a meal, since
>she didn't sit down.

I think most families and offices have one of that type. I worked
with a woman who was always on a diet and acted like a martyr when we
ordered out. She'd say. "Oh, I'll just have a salad." We all knew
she kept a small kitchen in her desk drawer and stuffed a new box of
doughnuts in it almost every morning. She frequently volunteered to
go pick up whatever we had ordered. She ate like a wolf and would
sometimes come back with food dribbled on her blouse. We guessed she
would get what we ordered and did a fast run through a drive through
for a burger or 4.

Lou