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Why have reclining seats if you don't use them? It isn't like the seat in front of you is laying across your knees, and the tray fits just fine when it's down.
Maybe for someone obese the tray would be a tight fit on a big gut. Dunno?
I already said the reason - I’m taller than average with a short torso and long legs. I don’t have a gut. The seatback is slammed against my kneecaps. It is uncomfortable especially if I am unable to get an aisle seat. But I deal with it.
It's the fault of the airlines for packing people in like sardines.
This is true, too. United definitely contributed to this, and they know it. That's why the whiner wasn't "booted" from the flight, but was accommodated by United, the next morning. In addition, United has a hell of a lot of nerve seating two obese passengers in the emergency exit row, to impede everyone's ingress snd egress should there be an emergency.
And if anyone thinks that those two "frequent travelers" don't employ this as a strategy for THEIR comfort--You take the aisle, I'll take the window--hoping that no one will sit there and, effectively, giving them an additional seat for free, think again.
At barely 5'3", I have to control the food desires to stay a good bit under 150 and that's quite overweight. I just don't see the point of being obese if one can do something about it. We cannot tell people how/what/when to consume, but geez, even I would have wanted to switch seats if I'd been sitting between them.
I don't think I have ever flown when I did not recline, as well as the person in front of me. That has never bothered me. Seats just don't recline that much - I've never understood why anyone would be bothered by that. But having someone beside me that so large that they are overflowing their seat into mine - THAT I have a problem with.
Because some of us have long legs (I'm only 5'5" but have ridiculously long legs for my height), and my bad knees don't like being slammed by your chair? Also, one time I was using my laptop on the tray table when the passenger in front of me suddenly reclined - causing the tray to close and BREAK my expensive computer. I tried stopping him as it was happening, just so I could remove the laptop first, but he ignored me like I didn't even exist. That's just plain rude and inconsiderate, no matter how you spin it.
I don't recline my seat unless it's a really long flight, because I'm (perhaps overly) aware of the comfort of other people. It also causes a chain reaction, and I'd hate to be the one jerk who started it. Personally I think they should take away the reclining option, at least until they manage to increase the ridiculously small amount of legroom.
At barely 5'3", I have to control the food desires to stay a good bit under 150 and that's quite overweight. I just don't see the point of being obese if one can do something about it. We cannot tell people how/what/when to consume, but geez, even I would have wanted to switch seats if I'd been sitting between them.
Key words in bold. It is rarely impossible to lose weight, but often much more difficult for some than others... otherwise almost everyone would be thin! And using yourself as an example is pointless, since everyone has a different body type/metabolism/etc. That's why I try to refrain from judging unless I know the person and their situation.
Key words in bold. It is rarely impossible to lose weight, but often much more difficult for some than others... otherwise almost everyone would be thin! And using yourself as an example is pointless, since everyone has a different body type/metabolism/etc. That's why I try to refrain from judging unless I know the person and their situation.
I've been at the point of not being able to do anything about my weight and could happen again, but doesn't mean that I would not want to at least try to work on it for health reasons. I did indeed say "If one can do something about it." Yes, it is difficult, but maybe not everyone would be thin or would want to be (that's getting into Western beauty standards which is a whole other topic). Guess I'm wrong for seeming to judge but I've been around too many people who enjoy glorifying "bigness" in a way that puts others down in about the same way as those who will body shame them for their size. It's just more of the "my way or no way" attitude, and there was plenty of that going around in this particular instance.
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