I got the following link http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124450530210396091.html sent to me yesterday from the Wall Street Journal about charging people for an extra seat if they have an oversized ass.
This has been a complaint of mine for years; as a person who flies fairly often there is nothing more frustrating than walking onto a plane and realizing you have the middle seat between two people who look like those twins from the Guinness Book of World Records on the motorcycles. Now I know airlines are cracking down but I suspect that what this will be is a money-maker for airlines, charging an overweight fee to generate more revenue just like they charge higher prices for heavy luggage. This will wind up doing nothing for the unlucky seat-neighbors.
This is a place where your frequent flier status should be able to help you out. Right now with some kind of elite-status you can choose to get the bulk-head or emergency aisle so I suggest that when you book a ticked online and it allows you to choose your seats they should show you the relative height/weight of all the other people already booked so that you can avoid sitting next to the dude who is going to be scarfing down two meals but washing it down with a diet-coke.
So as a consumer advocate, I say that if airlines go the route of charging people more based on their weight than that money should go directly to the passenger sitting next to him for their inconvenience.
5 comments:
david! you hate subways, metropolitan diary, and overweight people. sometimes i look at all these overweight, sloppy, gone-downhill people and wonder if i'm gonna turn into that by the time i'm in my 40's. i think i'm too into my vain self to do that but still, i don't know what'll happen if i have kids one day. you know what bothers me? i have an unpretty distant acquaintance who i'm not a fan of (i think it's cuz i don't trust her cuz she gives off this two-faced vibe) and she always says sh!t like, "well if i worked out all the time, i would be skinny & look good too". but she doesn't! she doesn't do sh!t but thinks she's so fabulous cuz of her few gay friends and cuz she lives in a trendy neighborhood. meanwhile she's a hater who talks sh!t about slender people who exercise compulsively. i hate girl-haters. i don't like girls who don't like other girls for no reason. like those girls who are all, "i'm only friends with guys". that sh!t is weird. anyways, this is mean but maybe they should charge people for taking up 2 seats! i think the reason why exercise bulimics are kinda self-righteous like this and are also anti-obese people is cuz working out is hellish and not fun at all & is miserable. most times i dread it and wanna go home and do nothing instead. but that's what these obese people do - they don't do sh!t. so i think i take out my anger out on them cuz i wanna be like them and just not do sh!t and be lazy. but i go and put myself through torture and i hate my life. sometimes i pig out and tell my husband, "i'm so fat & gross right now" after eating 3 servings of slowcooker chili. he's all, "you're one of those people who pigs out and complains you're getting fat. i can't stand people like you". we have a really good marriage though. he just thinks i'm crazy. if this is really offensive, please delete this comment david!!! i don't know who reads this sh!t. at least with my soliloquy list, i know who's reading it so i can control what i say but i don't know if you have a lotta obese or diabetic-obese people reading your blog so i wanna make sure i'm not upsetting anyone. i'm actually a really nice, pleasant person. sometimes i hate facebook too cuz i thought it would be a good idea to not be picky and add everyone i know so now i have like 570 friends and whenever i wanna update my facebook status and wanna say something un-pc, i have to think twice cuz i could possibly offend some of them. cuz this one time, i took this quiz called, "how black are you?" on facebook and my answer was, "you are so black that people cross the street when you are walking down the block". my friend wrote to me immediately and was all, "you need to take that sh!t down cuz it's really offensive". i think it was an offensive quiz cuz one of the questions was, no joke, "how often do you drink grape soda?" and even though i picked A)Rarely, i ended up with that "you're 100% black" result.
i feel so restricted with my freedom of speech sometimes.
david, are you on my non-inlaw soliloquy list? i call it the secret separate soliloquy list.
ok lmfao @ seeing the height/weight of people on airplanes! that is funny. men would pick seats next to anyone who's like female and 5'6" and 115 pounds. i always get seated next to whiney old maid women in their 40s. i'm seriously worried that i'm being offensive.
can i admit something messed up again? i have a distant in-law who is really self-righteous and is always saying sh!t like, "cathy i delete all your emails cuz i'm too busy to read that nonsense. where do you find time to do things like that? you have way too much time on your hands" so naturally i removed her condescending self-righteous judgemental a*ss. but then i went and added all her cooler, open-minded friends to my recipient list. and now whenever she meets up with those friends, they constantly say sh!t like, "omg did you read cathy's ridiculous emails this week?" and so then annoying high 'n mighty in-law is all, "what emails?!" i hate that annoying b!tch. ok i seriously need to delete these kinda posts. these comments have nothing to do with your blog either!!! they are just me ranting to you. lmfao!
i need to talk about this girl a little more to make myself feel better. the final straw was when this judgemental in-law received my soliloquy where i said i was gonna have an affair when i'm 8 months pregnant and i was asking where could i find a man who'd be willing to do that sh!t. and then i guess she read that and went to my husband and told him and was all, "she really needs to stop writing things like that. it's very offensive". so i f*cking removed her no-sense-of-humor overweight a*ss. and now she comes to me and is all, "no don't remove me". f*cking b!tch. and i f*cking hate her do*uchebag husband too! they are ALWAYS competing with me & my husband. like at my wedding, she was just talking about HER upcoming wedding and saying stupid sh!t like, "what calligraphy did you use for your invitations?" and i'm all "oh i just used the cheaper computer calligraphy" and then tactless in-law is all, "oh well, i'm definitely gonna do hand calligraphy for mine". and she's like in her mid f*cking 30s! and now she competes with us with having kids! just cuz i'm younger than her and she's worried about herself not being fertile, don't take that sh!t out on me, stupid b!tch! she is constantly telling my mother-in-law sh!t like, "oh cathy's definitely not the maternal type. i can't see her ever having kids" and then she'll add on, "we're trying right away". f*cking WHO says that sh!t. that's a f*cking jinx. when we do have kids, she's gonna compare her kids to ours. i f*cking want to move really f*cking far and be left the f*ck alone.
oh and one more thing. she's always saying sh!t like, "we're gonna have twins cuz his dad is a twin". i mean, i hate people like this who think their lives are so planned out and perfect and are gonna be ideal. she is so naive and sheltered and just plain stupid. and WHY would she compete with me on having kids?! i haven't even been married a YEAR & i'm not even ready right now & i'm open about that. (she just got married a couple months ago but keeps going around telling ppl they're already trying). ok i'm copying and pasting all this into my next exclusive list only soliloquy.
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