After we’d gotten her unstuck, the heifer turned to me and said, "I think we're gonna need a bigger dorm, given your size and my ability to get stuck in the door. I'm Kim, by the way, Kim Riggs.)
"Mel, Mel Carlyle. Glad to meet you - glad the University thought to put two big girls together. But what do you mean about a bigger dorm room?"
"Well, under the ADA the university has a duty to accommodate our disabilities, if any. And my disability is my weight - looks like yours might be, too! And I think accommodating girls of our size means find different, bigger dorm rooms."
"The ADA?" I asked.
"Yeah, the Americans with Disabilities Act - protects everyone who's not 'typical'. And face, Mel, we're not typical."
"Thank goodness! I'm fat, not typical."
"And so am I! I'll just invoke the ADA, then maybe you and me can go for lunch? I'm starving!"
Well, neither of us was starving exactly, but after all my exertions of getting to the dorm room and pulling Kim in, I was hungry."
"First, though," Kim said, "a new room." She dialed her smart phone and a moment later said,
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