02-15-2010
08:44 PM
2 Loves
If we're going to make fat people buy two seats, then why don't we make people with poor hygiene buy two seats? I don't want to sit next to a smelly person for two hours. And what about people with colds? I don't want to catch something- better have an empty seat between us. I say we make people with noisy babies buy a whole row. And ugly people buy the back half of the plane.
You are on an airplane to get from point A to point B. It is not a spa experience. If you don't like to sit next to fat people, or smelly people, or people you don't know- then YOU buy the extra seat. I bet if it came down to that, skinny people would suck it up in order to avoid the extra fare.
If they are truly using the armrests as "guidelines", then they should adhere to said guidelines in EVERY circumstance, and not just eyeball the situation and enforce it when they feel like it. Fat people are not sub-human, they are not sub-standard, they do not have any less rights than skinny people. They are paying customers. And believe it or not, there's more than one option of getting from Point A to Point B. In today's world with all the TSA hassle and economy, Southwest is not even the cheapest or easiest option.
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