Anonymous wrote:DH and I are slightly overweight and book two aisle seats. Then you can just lean into the aisle a bit. Then you just have to watch your elbow so mean flight attendants don’t hit you with the cart. I think they do it in purpose.

Anonymous wrote:I finally got the video to load.

What a hosebeast......she wasn’t squished.

At the beginning, did some man offer his window seat? Was she thrown off the plane?

The obese woman should have kept quiet, IMO.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but if you're going to be so fat so as to spill into my seat, I get to say whatever I want to or about you. What an unnecessary waste of extra jet fuel.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but if you're going to be so fat so as to spill into my seat, I get to say whatever I want to or about you. What an unnecessary waste of extra jet fuel.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but if you're going to be so fat so as to spill into my seat, I get to say whatever I want to or about you. What an unnecessary waste of extra jet fuel.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't people who require more room just buy themselves seats in first class? Aren't those seats in first class more roomy? Maybe they could have even sat next to each other in first class and avoided all the fuss with the rude lady.

Haven’t flown, have you?

I've never flown first class. I have heard that it is A LOT more roomy, though.

The coach seats are small, they aren't too comfy but they do accommodate a normal or even a mildly to moderately obese sized person. If my body was literally encroaching on my neighbor's seat to the point that they were squished I would fork over the money and fly first class or I would buy myself two seats.

The passengers in that video should have bought the middle seat. And they were rude for not offering to trade her the aisle seat when they could see with their own eyes how badly she was being squished between them. I can't imagine doing that to some random stranger.

The woman said that she was having a hard time breathing before she blew her top about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a few doctor’s appointments in PG County with my brother. The office was literally filled with people like those two passengers. The waiting room had oversized chairs the size of a loveseat. My brother and I shared one. Every other chair was filled to capacity by an individual.

DING!
DING!!!
We have a winner!!
What this thread has been about all along!
Let's be prejudiced against overweight people AND black people .
You know some of you should not even be allowed to classify yourselves as human beings.

Are you saying that since they are overweight and black that it's okay to hog the middle seat?
If they were overweight and white would you feel the same way?

Nobody likes being overweight. You can speculate as to the reasons why that couple is overweight, but the fact is that some people have less favorable genetics, health conditions etc. that keep them from losing weight. What is indisputable is that the middle seat lady violated the bonds of humanity by calling them "fat pigs" and a bunch of other nasty names. I would have been mortified if my children were on the plane seeing a grown woman acting that way.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but if you're going to be so fat so as to spill into my seat, I get to say whatever I want to or about you. What an unnecessary waste of extra jet fuel.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL "I eat salad". What a nutcase.

I'm obese and I eat salad for lunch every day. No dressing.

But what else are you eating?

For breakfast today I had a banana and a snack pack of nuts (peanuts, cashews, almonds). Then I'll have salad for lunch. Then I'll have the mandarin I brought for a snack. Then for dinner I'm going to have leftover chinese food from last night - chicken and broccoli with brown rice.

Tomorrow for breakfast I'll have an apple and yogurt for breakfast. Salad for lunch. For dinner I'll stirfry vegetables, rice and shrimp (maybe toss in an egg?) kind of like a homemade shrimp fried rice thing.

I eat pretty well. The last time I had a sweet was last week - a colleague offered me a piece of a chocolate bar and I broke off what amounted to a big crumb.

You're leaving something out with this fantasy food diary. And you're lying to yourself too. Get up and exercise, and eat fewer calories than you burn while exercising. Then you will fit into an airplane seat.

Anonymous wrote:I have demanded to be reseated twice in my life. Once on a flight with a very overweight woman. The arm rest could not go down so that was a no go for me.

The 2nd time was when a man was falling down drunk.
The airlines inability to accomidate their guests (large seats ect) does not become my responsibility.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL "I eat salad". What a nutcase.

I'm obese and I eat salad for lunch every day. No dressing.

But what else are you eating?

For breakfast today I had a banana and a snack pack of nuts (peanuts, cashews, almonds). Then I'll have salad for lunch. Then I'll have the mandarin I brought for a snack. Then for dinner I'm going to have leftover chinese food from last night - chicken and broccoli with brown rice.

Tomorrow for breakfast I'll have an apple and yogurt for breakfast. Salad for lunch. For dinner I'll stirfry vegetables, rice and shrimp (maybe toss in an egg?) kind of like a homemade shrimp fried rice thing.

I eat pretty well. The last time I had a sweet was last week - a colleague offered me a piece of a chocolate bar and I broke off what amounted to a big crumb.

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with a premise that if you do not fit in the width of the seat provided, you need to make accommodations for that - either buy a second seat, first class, whatever. It is not shaming you or your weight to say that you do not have the right to encroach on another paying customer's seat. So just like you have the right to buy whatever seat you want (aisle, window, etc), the person next to you has a right to the entire space that they purchased.

I realize that several PPs mentioned that the airlines keep taking back these extra seats - but if we didn't have this intense fear of fat shaming, maybe they would change that practice. I'd love to believe that most people are the like the PPs coworker and dad who do pay for extra seats, but at the very least, the folks in this article did not. And I do not see why they feel that they're entitled to any space that they did not attempt to pay for.