Friday, January 20, 2006
"No good deed..."
So how does the Almighty respond? By plopping the single fattest male I have ever encountered in the coach section of an aircraft into the middle seat. He is overflowing into my space, and I am smashed against the window like the cartoon drawing I wish I was. We could use a little deoderant here in row 20, I might add.
Discuss: airlines should make huge people buy two seats.
12 Comments:
By 
Cassandra, at
Fri Jan 20, 02:44:00 PM:
Why couldn't it have been Pamela Anderson with her oversized carryon....
Ahem.
Nevermind.
By Cassandra, at
Fri Jan 20, 02:45:00 PM:
You, of course, totally knew you'd pay some day for posting that photo of that Person.
By Cardinalpark, at
Fri Jan 20, 03:24:00 PM:
There is such a rule, by the way, but Southwest Airlines was tortured on CNN for enforcing it.
I had to laugh though. Take it as your unfettered opportunity to foul the air as repayment.
By Charlottesvillain, at
Fri Jan 20, 03:33:00 PM:
I guess this would be a bad time for you to try the old Ex-lax brownie gag.
By Cardinalpark, at
Fri Jan 20, 03:37:00 PM:
Ny the way, is that better or worse than if it was the single fattest female?
By Charlottesvillain, at
Fri Jan 20, 07:06:00 PM:
By Charlottesvillain, at
Fri Jan 20, 07:06:00 PM:
By 
, at
Fri Jan 20, 07:38:00 PM:
Tigerhawk, I guess it was a full flight else you would have moved. As one that has flown tens of thousands of miles, always request a seat in the rear of the plane near the galley. Often this the last area of the plane to be filled and if there are any vacancies they are likely to be in the rear. You are also close to the stews (sorry, flight attendants) and sometimes can get extra drinks, etc. Toilet is close too.
By , at
Sat Jan 21, 07:39:00 PM:
Charge 'em by body weight and put in several rows with extra wide seats (so they feel more 'comfortable'). The airlines fly EVERYTHING else by the pound. Waz up with dat?
By , at
Sun Jan 22, 06:56:00 AM:
I knew a story of a little kid who was stuck next to such a man and couldn't go to the bathroom for several hours. I believe it scarred him in a permanent, insidious way.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Jan 22, 10:38:00 AM:
Lastango -
This guy couldn't have confined his bulk to his own airspace if his life depended on it. I mean, you can't "suck in" love handles the size of watermelons. I'm sure it was very unpleasant for him. The solution is to build a row or two of "fat seats" in coach and require that particularly large passengers buy them at a somewhat higher cost. That is the only way to protect the right of more modestly-sized people to their full complement of space.
By John B. Chilton, at
Wed Dec 13, 11:10:00 AM:
TigerHawk, in your last comment you use the word "right" which I take to mean "property right." I'm not sure where on the ticket the property rights are defined - be they property rights to lean back (or not) - which can in principle be enforced, or spillover from the passenger beside which isn't.
It's up to the airline to determine if it wants to better define property rights, including requiring more rotund passengers to buy more space.
(Regarding knees, does anyone know if Kneedefenders work and are allowed by flight attendants?)
