Awkward???

So, I was getting in the elevator at work this morning and two women on my floor got in at the same time.
One looked a bit flustered, so (here I go) I asked her what was wrong.
"Look at this picture!" she said as she held her new security badge 2 inches from my face.
"The picture is HORRIBLE! You can see all the fat in my chins!"
I inhaled, speechless, my mind spinning...
"I thought I would just get a new badge with my OLD picture, I looked better in THAT one!" she continued as she looked me right in the eyes, dead on, as if she was expecting a reply.
(-Interjecting here: she is, well, overweight. Not by a few pounds, but by quite a bit. But hey, that doesn't affect me and if she is happy, then okay. But in my mind and in my gut, I got a different feeling...I felt she isn't happy, but again, not my place to say.-)
The whole time up riding up and even as we exited, she continued - "I mean really, I hate this, now I have to see what I look like every time I look at this thing", as she closed the badge between her two hands - almost as if she rubbed them together the bad picture would disappear.
"Ugh, I'm so FRUSTRATED!" (again, she is staring at me, like she is piercing her words into my forehead like a sharp tack into a cork board.
They turned one way, I turned another and I bid them a "good day". 
For a moment I considered turning around, but to say what?
Four hours later, I made my way to the lunch room, rounded the corner and there she was...heating up her lunch in the microwave. 
I made my way to the sink to drain my tuna and - there it was - "These things don't work" I heard her say, almost like a question.
I turned to her and just looked at her...and then it came out,"What doesn't work?"
"These healthy meals...look at me! They.Don't.Work." she said.
And, so I did it. I asked the question.
"What else do you do besides these 'healthy meals' because it's not all about lunch."
I wasn't mean, just matter-of-fact.
What she said next didn't surprise me...


To be continued...


-d