Jim Ryan gives us another of those true incidents that seem to happen frequently to him — that, or he has a good memory.

I was in the waiting room of the office of a doctor who specialized in intestinal bypass surgeries. Also in the waiting room was an exceedingly overweight lady who was accompanied by a child of perhaps six years, a little girl. After I had been there a bit the child came over to me and pronounced in a very loud (you know, child loud!) voice, “My grandmother is here to get her “colossal tummy” checked!”