“Slow down,” begins Robert,“that’s a lot of questions. Yeah, I’m fat and I like it - I put on a lot more than just a freshman 15 last year. When I was a kid, my mum would even put me on diets - they didn’t work, in between them I ballooned - so being away from home last year I just ate what I wanted... but that turned out to be a whole lot of food!" he said, grinning and patting his gut. "I put on the frosh 15 before Columbus Day - not that it showed as much as on some guys - and just kept on eating. In January the money got a little tight, so I got this job, and of course the fringe benefit of eating here really helped too. Yeah, I grew a lot last year!"

"Wow. And, you weren't like, trying to gain?"

"Well, I wasn't at first, I just wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. But after Christmas...