United Passenger Carps About Being Seated Between "Two Big Pigs"

[phantompilot]

If you can't fit in a single seat then buy two, how hard is that to understand?? But don't get mad because the person whose seat space you are STEALING gets upset about it. You're the one stealing space.

[rftw]

Originally Posted by auntieannie68

too bad cause it has happened and my walker has had to be close to me cause I have little to no balance and cannot stand without it.

and I believe you would be one of those people who would whine out loud and jab me in the arm cause they wanted BOTH arm rests or had to wait two seconds while I folded my walker when they crawled over me shoving their big arse in my face.please make sure all fatties do not come near you.oh and since you want to know the only thing on my body that has ever intruded into someone's space may have been my chest,my elbows,and maybe my butt when I used to climb bleachers.never had complaints but never met people as needy as some of you.Btw I train now,have not flown since I was on cane.people were nice then,but we're not as mean spirited as now .
bet you are a trumplican

This isn't a political issue, auntie. Let's not make it one. The bottom line is that a person is entitled to the space they paid for.

That being said, I wouldn't mind, nor do I think the vast majority of people would mind, accepting some inconvenience in order to accommodate someone who is handicapped. That isn't what happened here.

[Soviet]

Precisely. In the vast majority of cases, obesity is not a handicap. It is the result of years/decades of a combination of laziness, ignorance & gluttony or all three combined. I know some very intelligent people who work in the medical field & they still allowed themselves to approach obesity. (But not quite) It’s tough since they had a poor work-life balance but they still could have prevented their obesity by constantly doing a few simple things. They didn’t & now they have obesity (or near-obesity) to deal with.

[auntieannie68]

finally saw video sparking this

the woman was an obnoxious twit,probably racist,and not supported by other passengers .

hoping that happens again to her and she has no recourse but to sit there

[beachmouse]

I'm at the point where I fly enough to get kind of vaguely early boarding and, figuring possession is 9/10ths of the best outcome for me, do my best to be in my seat with armrests down, shoulders occupying all needed space, and headphones on before anyone else in my row gets there. If I've got aisle and have to briefly get up to let someone else get to their seat, I plunk back down before they sit and take up my allowed space before they can think to try to pop the armrest up.

My worst flight experience ever was being next to the scrawny drunk meth head who kept twitching around and repeatedly driving his elbow into my rib cage because he claimed he needed the space and then got all cranky when I used my own arm to block him from doing it again. He gave me the heebie jeebies and it was bad enough that if I hadn't been flying on one of the busiest holiday travel days of the year with every flight going out full, I would have asked the flight attendant to reseat me. But because the option of not sitting next to creepy would have involved an overnight in Atlanta before the airline could have found me another flight, and it was only 44 minutes from wheels up to wheels down for that flight, I just put the headphones back on, turned my music up, and hoped he wouldn't decided to stalk me in the parking lot at ou destination as I went to retrieve my car

[kayanne]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

I'm at the point where I fly enough to get kind of vaguely early boarding and, figuring possession is 9/10ths of the best outcome for me, do my best to be in my seat with armrests down, shoulders occupying all needed space, and headphones on before anyone else in my row gets there. If I've got aisle and have to briefly get up to let someone else get to their seat, I plunk back down before they sit and take up my allowed space before they can think to try to pop the armrest up.

My worst flight experience ever was being next to the scrawny drunk meth head who kept twitching around and repeatedly driving his elbow into my rib cage because he claimed he needed the space and then got all cranky when I used my own arm to block him from doing it again. He gave me the heebie jeebies and it was bad enough that if I hadn't been flying on one of the busiest holiday travel days of the year with every flight going out full, I would have asked the flight attendant to reseat me. But because the option of not sitting next to creepy would have involved an overnight in Atlanta before the airline could have found me another flight, and it was only 44 minutes from wheels up to wheels down for that flight, I just put the headphones back on, turned my music up, and hoped he wouldn't decided to stalk me in the parking lot at ou destination as I went to retrieve my car

If you're in the aisle seat (or window for that matter), I hope you're decent enough to let the middle person use the arm rest. It's bad enough when I get stuck in the middle, but it's completely inconsiderate when the aisle and window people (who can use the outer arm rest, and can get a little extra space by leaning outward) don't at least share, if not give me the middle arm rests. (And they should be happy I completely fit into my own seat, no spillage.)

[beachmouse]

Originally Posted by kayanne

If you're in the aisle seat (or window for that matter), I hope you're decent enough to let the middle person use the arm rest. It's bad enough when I get stuck in the middle, but it's completely inconsiderate when the aisle and window people (who can use the outer arm rest, and can get a little extra space by leaning outward) don't at least share, if not give me the middle arm rests. (And they should be happy I completely fit into my own seat, no spillage.)

Middle person definitely gets the arm rest, and hopefully the person on the aisle/window side in a three seat row also give middle seat the arm rest- it's fair for getting stuck in the middle.

Course this presumes the armrest is down, which is something I always do before I sit down, along with a brief check to try to figure out which seat belt goes with which seat, and sort it out if it's a little unclear.