Obese have right to two airline seats

[rocks 494]

Well as a last resort - farting works

If you can't enjoy the ride - noone should. That's ultimate passive agressiveness.

Ooooooooo... that's true...

i'm going to keep it in mind this Thanksgiving when the buses are crowded...

either that or bring a live turkey on the bus... that might work, too, no?

Take an egg salad sandwich and a bag of raw broccoli florets with you just in case

how about yesterday's cauliflower?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Its weird - some people are afraid of conflict to the extent that in trying to avoid they'll end up creating it anyway. I have the same thing on my daily commute - pretty much. Something I don't get is why people you see on the bus everyday (and who see you), people who have been doing it long enough to remember where others get off insist on:

1) Sitting on the aisle seat as soon as they get on, which forces you to ask them to move if you want to sit in the seat next to them.

2) When you do ask them to move - rather than shift their butt over, they'd actually prefer to stand up (blocking the whole aisle in the process) so that you can have the window seat. They do this EVEN if you (and they) know that you'll be getting off before them - and will have to ask them to move (again).

I hate passive-aggressiveness.

i'll admit that on interstate bus trips and airplane trips, i take the aisle seat, and i am a shorty. but it is precisely because if i take the window, some big person will just jump in the seat next to me, like they found a treasure chest on NJ Transit, and little by little they start creepin' in on my space. when i say "big" it doesn't have to be an obese person, usually it's just a big-built person and they just cramp me up against the window and i'm like a lopsided, smooshed blowfish pushed up against the glass, gazing out on the Jersey turnpike, with a look of pleading help in my eye. it's terrible. the only way i have a chance is if i get the aisle seat.

Well as a last resort - farting works

If you can't enjoy the ride - noone should. That's ultimate passive agressiveness.

I did that on a plane once (though partly unavoidably as I was having a stomach problem). I was holding back for the sake of the other passengers - but when the woman next to me brushed crumbs onto to me (after jostling the armrests) I just thought "sod it".

She didn't say anything either - though I did smile when she turned to her daughter in the seat behind and whispered "it stinks here!"

[HAL 9000 96]

Well as a last resort - farting works

If you can't enjoy the ride - noone should. That's ultimate passive agressiveness.

Ooooooooo... that's true...

i'm going to keep it in mind this Thanksgiving when the buses are crowded...

either that or bring a live turkey on the bus... that might work, too, no?

Take an egg salad sandwich and a bag of raw broccoli florets with you just in case

how about yesterday's cauliflower?

* DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER *

[Nagishkaw 510]

0mg, I love it!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yesterday's Cauliflower Cheese would be worse...

[AlHayatZween 2]

I did that on a plane once (though partly unavoidably as I was having a stomach problem). I was holding back for the sake of the other passengers - but when the woman next to me brushed crumbs onto to me (after jostling the armrests) I just thought "sod it".

She didn't say anything either - though I did smile when she turned to her daughter in the seat behind and whispered "it stinks here!"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I didn't read through this whole thread but a solution...

The airlines should provide variable seating.

So, if you're 7 feet tall and weigh 350lbs, when you buy your ticket, you let the airlines know and they assign you to a seat you'll fit into. Charging different rates based on a passenger's size is discrimination.

[rocks 494]

I didn't read through this whole thread but a solution...

The airlines should provide variable seating.

So, if you're 7 feet tall and weigh 350lbs, when you buy your ticket, you let the airlines know and they assign you to a seat you'll fit into. Charging different rates based on a passenger's size is discrimination.

if they need more space they should pay more, just like business and first class do!

[Mags 112]

Well as a last resort - farting works

If you can't enjoy the ride - noone should. That's ultimate passive agressiveness.

Ooooooooo... that's true...

i'm going to keep it in mind this Thanksgiving when the buses are crowded...

either that or bring a live turkey on the bus... that might work, too, no?

Take an egg salad sandwich and a bag of raw broccoli florets with you just in case

how about yesterday's cauliflower?

* DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER *

Bwahahaha!

[Amby 490]

I have no solution. I give up. I will continue to steal peoples pillows.

[Cassie 8]

Threads like this just tick me off.

Just sayin'.

[Amby 490]

Threads like this just tick me off.

Just sayin'.

Why?

[Cassie 8]

Threads like this just tick me off.

Just sayin'.

Why?

The attitude displayed in this thread towards fat people -- ergo, myself -- makes me cross. Not everyone is fat because they eat hamburgers all day, not everyone is fat because they are lazy. And you know what? People like me are acutely aware of how people look at them when they realize that they are going to be sitting besides a fat person. It's not fun.

[Amby 490]

Threads like this just tick me off.

Just sayin'.

Why?

The attitude displayed in this thread towards fat people -- ergo, myself -- makes me cross. Not everyone is fat because they eat hamburgers all day, not everyone is fat because they are lazy. And you know what? People like me are acutely aware of how people look at them when they realize that they are going to be sitting besides a fat person. It's not fun.

Oh...hmmmm...I gained a lot of weight taking prednisone and not from eating cheeseburgers all day (I don't even like cheeseburgers). No one ever treated me differently. I think a lot (not all but a lot) of it is how you carrry yourself.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I didn't read through this whole thread but a solution...

The airlines should provide variable seating.

So, if you're 7 feet tall and weigh 350lbs, when you buy your ticket, you let the airlines know and they assign you to a seat you'll fit into. Charging different rates based on a passenger's size is discrimination.

if they need more space they should pay more, just like business and first class do!

That's discrimination.