https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579609743244800006
I am currently - literally - WEDGED between two OBESE people on my flight. This is absolutely NOT acceptable or okay. If fat people want to be fat, fine. But it is something else entirely when I'm stuck between you, with your arm rolls on my body, for 3 hours.
I don't care if this is mean. My entire body is currently being touched against my wishes. I can't even put the arm rests down on either side because there's no fking room. I'm sick of acting like fatness to this extent is normal. Let me assure you, it is not.
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579610916798476289
If you need a seat belt extender, you are TOO FAT TO BE ON A PLANE. Buy two seats or don't fly.
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579621657563758593
I have elected to close my tray table and hold my cup of tea between my teeth because it's jabbing her belly and I can't get it down properly.
Pic of her "leg room": https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579628856415498240
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579646229038108672
Update - Both the fats are sweating on me. Have realized if I lean forward, I am less crushed. Only draw back is the man in front of me has his seat back and I keep getting smacked in the head when he adjusts in his chair.
Humiliating.
This will begin my villian arc.
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579647180021075968
Have begun eating my ham sandwich like a hunched over orangutan, head down, facing the floor, squished in my tiny pocket of space, getting hit in the head. No room for my drink bottle. A very sad time indeed.
1 like = 1 prayer
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579669639109672960
.@AmericanAir we need to talk.
AA' response: https://web.archive.org/web/20221011163636/https://twitter.com/AmericanAir/status/1579670063824572416 (Archive.is link, currently #5857 in queue https://archive.ph/wip/cpNfk)
Our passengers come in all different sizes and shapes. We're sorry you were uncomfortable on your flight.
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579671145787568129
This is really their official reply to me being sandwiched between two obese humans.
Holy shit.
So, I'm expected to have only a quarter of a seat when I fly?
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1579671731811540995
.@AmericanAir I just experienced getting sweat on, touched without my consent, smacked in the face and subjected to hours of no personal space.
And your response is essentially "too bad"? Is that what I'm getting here?
The solution is to pay for first class if you don't like being herded into the back and being treated like cattle.
During the "golden age" of air travel a coach seat costs about what first class costs these days after adjusting for inflation.
No, the solution is for fat fucks to pay for two seats, rather than intrude on mine.
Yes but in the meantime an individual can take steps to mitigate the situation for themselves.
Full flight that a company paid for. And you shouldn't have to anyways.
I'm not arguing that people should have to do this or that it's a remotely acceptable state of affairs.
What I am advocating for is that people take charge of their own fate and employ a workaround.
That was back when they had expensive whisky and cigars in first class
Now first class is for when you want to breathe.
Breathing is a privilege.
- World Economic Forum