Posted on 06/19/2002 7:17:02 AM PDT by white trash redneck
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Not at all.
I think that the "encroacher" should pay for more space -- not the "encroachee"!!!
Why should I have to pay for extra space that the guy sitting next to me is taking up??!?! He should!
Try Midwest Express. Their planes boast 2 by 2 first class size seating. Unfortunately they don't fly everywhere.
Not at all.
I think that the "encroacher" should pay for more space -- not the "encroachee"!!!
Why should I have to pay for extra space that the guy sitting next to me is taking up??!?! He should!
Okay. That's not what I was saying. To clarify read post #334. Oh to heck with it, I'll just repost here since you're the third person that didn't understand what I'm saying. Which is my faulty writing that no doubt caused the confussion.
"I never said it was fair of the airlines for the skinny person to pay to reclaim the space. I said in so many words, which I will now rephrase so that it makes sense specifically to you: the skinny cramped person would, given that he faces a five hour flight of unwarranted discomfort would like to turn to his neighbor and say, "listen, I'll give you ten bucks for you to remove that part of yourself that is encroaching into my seating space. Because frankly, I think the ten bucks is minimal cost compared to the amount of added comfort I'll gain." Under his breath the skinny person is saying, heck I'd pay double that to reclaim the comfort.
"The point is, once the person is in the situation of being cramped, that is one alternative that pleases them more than suffering through five hours of flight from hell. Next time they fly they'll take the issue to management before getting on the plane.
" Hindsight is twenty-twenty. But it does the skinny person no good when he finds himself squished. Think of it this way. If an obese person sitting next to you offered to pay you for the space that he wanted to encroach upon, would you take the ten bucks or say, "no way". I think most people would say no."
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Okay not that I've hopefully cleared that up, once you are in your seat on the plane, given only two options of 1) suffer uncomfortably for five hours or 2) pay ten bucks to get the rest of your seat back, which would you do?
Explains everything, doesn't it NN?
Commuters have a weight limit. Should the plane fly with just the eight seats sold?
Didn't think so.
That's right. Or, perhaps we could begin seating all the fat people in the same row, three across on a 737. When they complain that they can't fit in the seat next to the other fat guys, we'll simply reply, "That isn't possible. Your space is intact, because Houmatt says so."
You mention logic, but I have yet to see you put it to use.
Yeah, right.
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