I had no idea

I knew America was getting fatter.  I knew America's kids, especially, were becoming incredibly obese.

But I had no idea it was this bad.

I was in Academy yesterday looking for khaki shorts.  I can only wear khaki "golf" shorts for work, and I only have one approved pair of shorts.  Well, technically I can wear khaki pants too, but we just reached our 70th 100+ day today so that ain't gonna happen.  I digress...

Academy will usually have a pretty good end of the season clearance section, but one of the other reasons why I wanted to go there was because they also sell school uniforms.  This means they have a large selection of khaki shorts.  And, like I figured, there were a large selection of uniform like clothes, so I go looking and hoping (they are kids clothes after all) for a pair of khaki shorts that would fit.  I was kind of thrown for a loop when I saw 20.5 on the tag.  At first I thought they were now measuring girl's clothes in inches, so I picked up the largest measurement and held it up to my waist.  When the waist on the shorts wrapped around more than 1/2 of my waist I realized 20.5 did not mean 20.5 inches.  These shorts were probably comparable to a women's size 8 or 10!  Now for women, that's a pretty average size, but for a girl...that's incredibly ridiculous!!!

I decided to not look for a girl's size that would fit me because I realized the shorts were pleated.  Seriously?!  Who wears pleated shorts???  Anway, I head to the boy's section of the uniform racks thinking those shorts will not have any pleats.  Guess what.  The ONLY sizes they had were husky sizes!  Are you kidding me?  I thought maybe it was because all the "normal" size shorts had been purchased already.  I checked the pants to confirm this theory.  Nope, I was wrong...all husky sized pants, too!  Is child obesity so bad that stores really aren't carrying normal sizes anymore?

I know I'm not a parent, yet, but seriously people...get your kids off the couch and get them outside!  Stop buying them the newest technological play thing and buy them a bike and helmet!  Put them in some sort of physical activity...baseball, basketball, dance, karate...something!  GET THEM OFF THEIR BUTTS AND OUT DOING SOMETHING!!!

Ok, I'm off my soap box.  Have a good day! : )