02-16-2010
12:30 AM
It's a delicate issue. It's important to require fat passengers to have two adjacent seats, but it's embarrassing to them to remove them from the plane. Ideally the passenger should be intercepted earlier in the process, but airport layout and procedures make this difficult.
And a problem in this case is that, judging from photographs, Mr. Smith has been gaining considerable weight, year-on-year. He's flown before and thus expects that he is qualified to fly in a single seat, but I guess he hasn't been monitoring his weight, and he wasn't aware that he's finally reached the point where he's passed over onto the banned list.
One thing that might help him is to go back to normal clothing and ditch the XXXXL hoodies and hip-hop pants. When you wear normal clothes it's easier to notice and be aware that you are gaining weight. Moo-moos and hip-hop pants are not going to give you that feedback.
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