Tremor

    I was standing near the doorway, looking at one of the exhibits in the Veterans Building.  Suddenly I felt the floor shake, and I immediately thought earthquake.  I looked down and the old wooden floor was moving, which  served to confirm my thought, until I turned around and saw a woman had entered the building.  She must have weighed close to 500 pounds, judging her size against another person I've known, and for each step she took the wooden floorboards creaked and settled.  She was a young woman and moving with apparent relative ease, but I expect that may not always be an option for her, or for that matter, for the many others of a similar weight who were at the fair.  A grossly obese person used to be a rarity, often the subject of stares, but unfortunately (maybe fortunately for them), this is no longer the case.  The only reason I noticed this woman was that I thought she was an earthquake happening.