I will sit on you.
This whole thing with Kevin Smith and Southwest Airlines is stupid. Stupid on Southwest’s part, that is. Haven’t heard about it? Rummage through Kevin’s Twitter, or listen to the hour and a half long Smodcast for the full story if you have time. Worth it if you’re really interested, or if you just like listening to Kevin Smith. I could just listen to him talk for hours; I can’t think of too many people who tell a story better than he does.
Also read Southwest’s “apology” blog.
Sitting next to fat people on a plane is hardly the worst option. For me, I avoid small children first. No amount of fat is worse than getting next to screaming, squirming kids. I wish they had a day-care section of the plane roped off.
Next I avoid old men. Haha. Sounds silly, but I swear, I get next to older men a lot, and more often than not they’re all elbows, knees, and newspaper. It has nothing to do with their size; and I’m not saying they’re bad people. The one’s I’ve been next to just have a habit of being all over the place and not caring about personal space at all.
After that, I avoid college-aged kids. They’re usually loud and obnoxious.
I guess the point is, why is it fat people get kicked off? Tall people don’t get kicked off if their legs are too long and they have to spread their knees into my space. People with the most annoying kids in the world don’t get kicked off for being turdy parents.
If Kevin Smith could fit with no seat belt extender and with the arm rests down, he certainly was no safety risk. I’ve certainly seen people way larger, using the extender fit into one seat and be allowed to fly. And, regardless of ANY of that, even if he was too fat (he wasn’t), the way the employees handled the entire situation is completely absurd.
And if you can’t listen to his entire Smodcast, you should listen to the last 20 minutes or so when he talks about how when he finally got put on a plane back after all this nonsense–with two seats, mind you–a heavy girl sits next to him and gets lectured by another Southwest employee about the necessity of buying two seats in the future.
Douche-baggery!
