When I first read this NYT article about schools issuing obesity reports, I was struck by the photographs of 6-year-old Karlind Dunbar sitting morosely at the kitchen table (see more in this audio slide show). I find them hilarious because they purport to show the negative impact that the reports can have on the psychological health of children, but she looks so over the top sad in the photographs that I can’t help but feel she was exagerrating for the photographer. I mean, how can the presence of a photographer from a national newspaper who is there to shoot how sad a six-year-old feels at the table not affect how the six-year-old acts at the dinner table?

Karlind looked so sad sitting at the table in those photographs, that I was struck by this photograph of a couple torn apart by an art lamp. It’s hilarious: the woman sitting there, teary eyed with the man sitting behind her looking concerned and the starcrossed art lamp sitting on the table. I, for one, am definitely going to keep an eye out for more sad people sitting at tables in the NYT.