When I was about ten or so, and a fat child, my family went to a restaurant sometime close to christmas. Julebord, it's a tradition here in Norway, but I don't know what it's called elsewhere or if it's traditional elsewhere.

Anyway, the restaurant staff thought it would be GREAT FUN for the kids to be weighed before they ate, and then afterwards to see how much they had "gained" after stuffing themselves, and they gave us a "diploma" with before/after weights. My brother didn't particularly mind, I don't think, he's always been skinny, but I was mortified... Shy as I was, I didn't dare say no, either.

How do these idiots come up with these things?!