Posted on 08/21/2023 8:19:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In her post on social media, a thirty-six-year-old woman wrote about her experience flying back from Thanksgiving weekend at her parents. As a plus-sized woman, the Original Poster (OP) was accustomed to booking more than one seat on most public transportation.
For her early morning flight back home, she spent extra money and booked two adjacent seats “so whoever had the third seat in [her] row would not have to be squished up in [her] business.”....
A gentleman approached and tried to sit his pre-teen daughter in the “empty” middle seat—where OP said that her “bum was taking up a good third of the space.”
She politely informed the man that the seat was booked and therefore his daughter couldn’t sit there. She put her hand on the other two-thirds of the seat for emphasis.
The man immediately complained. He vented to OP that he hadn’t been able to book seats together and that he needed to sit with his daughter. OP merely shrugged and said she was sorry, but “it wasn’t [her] problem, [and] that wasn’t his seat.”
The stewardess left to track down a passenger willing to trade. She returned ten minutes later with a female passenger. The woman, one half of a married couple willing to trade seats, called OP selfish. She made sure to shame OP for not helping “a dad in need.”
OP did not balk at the insult. She told the woman, “I booked early, and I booked two seats together because, to put it plainly, I’m fat. His two seats were separate seats. How exactly do you propose I split my fat a** in half to sit one half in one seat and the other half in his other seat?”
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She paid for two and should have two. End of story.
They are idiots.
She was totally in the right.
Because communism.
Yes indeed!
I agree that too many people feel entitled to demand that others give up the conveniences that they planned for to accommodate the conveniences of others late to the party.
-PJ
The fat lady did it right and did it early, which is also right.
Kudos to her for being consider of other passengers.
Yeah good idea
Yahoo website has had several stories on people who want you to give up your first class seat so their kid who they bought a ticket for in economy class can sit up front with them in 1st class.
Then they get outraged that the person does not give up their seat!
I bet they do this so they pay less and figure some fool will give up an expensive seat for a sob story.
That woman who left her husband to change seats must be in a bad marriage : )
You mean morbidly obese. It’s only in this country where the morbidly obese want to slim down to obese! The morbidly obese, where outta 3 ppl, one weighs as much... as the other two!
If she paid for two seats...next to each other...why should she be forced to give either of them up?
The woman bought two seats adjacent to each other. She paid for them. The guy who couldn’t figure out how to purchase two adjacent seats is a selfish idiot. Just my take.
Interesting that she didn’t go back and offer her exit row seat to the person stuck next to her fiancé in the crummy seats.
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