02-16-2010
12:48 AM
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As recently as TODAY traveling on Southwest from California I found myself sitting next to an oversized Fat Ass whose sweaty festoons of flab spilled over into my seat and over me like warm bread dough. Naturally the flight was FULL - and I had just surrendered my early-board window seat way the back to a mother traveling with 3 kids plus a screaming baby so they could all sit in the same row (…don’t get me started – that’s a WHOLE other story…).
Back to the F.A. – after all the seat shuffling the only place left for me was (you guessed it) in a middle seat next to Jabba. This guy obviously needed to pay for 2 seats (maybe three so he and all others could be comfortable!) Alas – no brave Southwest pilot came to my aid to shuffle this monster off the plane (whatever happened to weight and balance calculations?) and I was forced to use this guys gut as an armrest for 4 hours. Should I have asked for a refund of half my ticket price since I was only able to use half my seat??
Fat travelers aren’t just a Southwest Airlines problem – it is an entire airline industry problem – and Kevin Smith appears to be just another F.A. with a big mouth. Keep up the good work Southwest - and make these “customers of size” pay for their space… or just boot their aisle-blocking, emergency exit-plugging, peanuts-in-the-mouth-stuffing butts off the plane altogether.
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