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'Person Of Size' Angry About Need For Spill-Over Ticket
Sacramento Bee via Scripps Howard ^
| June 18, 2002
| Bob Shallit
Posted on 06/17/2002 5:13:16 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
"And he was hopping mad." I hope he wasn't hopping mad on the flight.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I flew from Virginia to Texas one time on a cramped MD-80 and was seated next to a very big woman (I was in the window seat, and boy did I get an up-close view of the window). There were some guys who I worked with who were on the flight (we were going to a company function), and I ended up being the butt of several jokes when we arrived at our destination (no pun intended).
Buncha skinny weasel whiners, next time I'll sit on ya instead of next to ya!
To: HiTech RedNeck
LOL!
To: Honcho Bongs
Exactly! In my experience, the person next to me wouldn't fit in the seat with the arm rest down. I know the airlines are making their per person space smaller, but I resent not be able to use the space that I paid for!
To: Reaganwuzthebest
What would Nero Wolfe say?
Pfui!
To: A Citizen Reporter
He should have been seated with his back to the cockpit door. Now that would stop any hijacker.
To: LibKill
It has to be torture for huge fat people to fly. If I was one of them I'd already be buying an extra ticket without being told, in fact I know a 'large Marge' who does.
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:59:53 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Honcho Bongs
I sat next to a "person of size" on a flight from Mexico. He literally slept on me for the whole trip. It was horrible.
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I've been discriminated against since I was in high school. My head was too big and they had to order a special helmet for me when I played high school football.
It's been the same every since, I'm a big man in a Marvin Milktoast world.
To: Billthedrill
We have just as much right to use the "person of size" sobriquet as weight-challenged lardbuckets. I mean that in the nicest possible way.LOL!
I got on a plane in the Pacific and after takeoff, stewardess showed us seatbelt extension she'd had to use on weight-challenged lardbucket Hawaiian princess who'd just debarked first class. And BTW, Pavarotti's belt, exhibited at SF Opera, is 57 inches long. Taller than I am. We pay extra to see him on stage.
To: DoughtyOne
You haven't lived until you've been placed between two of these 350 pounders on a long trip. Try a Fokker Turboprop from Champaign/Urbana to Chicago, in bad weather, with him on the aisle and you by the window.
To: Ron in Acreage
The airlines should sit all fat people in the same aisles and adjacent seats. At least this way they will only make each other uncomfortable and not spill over on normal sized peoples seats. When you purchase your ticket you must give your weight so they can properly arrange your seating. The airlines can claim it helps to "balance" the plane for safer flying for the "children".
To: Reaganwuzthebest
From a smoker..... MUSIC TO MY EARS. Make the beached whales exercise "outdoors" on their lunch hours--it is good for their health and they need our help.
To: DoughtyOne
And the sweat marks you inheret from pressing the fat, so to speak.
How about when they use the safety demo seatbelt as a size extender for a normal seatbelt.
To: Paul Atreides
I guess Hillary would be known as a Person of Thighs. 13 posted on 6/17/02 5:24 PM Pacific by Paul Atreides
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:07:08 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: Reaganwuzthebest
/rant
I fly all the time and let me tell you it can be hell sitting next to "A person of size". The first class seats are a lot bigger. They should have a policy where you either buy a first class ticket or two seats in economy.
/end rant
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Way to go, you skinny thing, you! :)
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:07:37 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
To: Tennessee_Bob
Uh, heh heh, heh . . . heh heh, heh heh . . . you said "fokker."
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:09:07 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
To: evolved_rage
Does the plane carry extra life rafts to acommodate them?
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