Another Airline Adds "Too Fat To Fly" Policy
Hello America!!!!!! Obesity is here and it is here TO STAY!!!!!!! So get rid of arm rests on chairs, get rid of table booths and set up table and chairs in all resturaunts (yeah I cant spell, bite me!) Make chairs wider, make isles wider, If I had the money, I would build my own town with its own resturaunts, medical staff, movie theaters and even an amusement park that will say "You must be T-H-I-S W-I-D-E TO R-I-D-E T-H-I-S R-I-D-E!!!!!!
I'm sorry. This just struck a real sensitive nerve in me. Seriuosly, though, companies should take into consideration and build all public chairs with no arms. These skinny anorexic wannabe's can simply fold their hands in their laps or something!
I'm sorry. This just struck a real sensitive nerve in me. Seriuosly, though, companies should take into consideration and build all public chairs with no arms. These skinny anorexic wannabe's can simply fold their hands in their laps or something!
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? I say, what difference does it make--I paid for a full glass,so either way I am getting jipped!!!
To their credit, I guess Olive Garden was "listening" with their recent remod of their stores -- I noticed that they finally switched to armless chairs at the tables. 
My big gripe (no pun intended) whenever I would go there as a pre-op was having to look and ask for the "big people's chair" (i.e. the one without arms) when being seated. 
It seems like they only had 2 or 3 of those in the whole place. If other guests were already using them, I would have to cram into a regular chair and sit uncomfortably the whole time I was there. 
My big gripe (no pun intended) whenever I would go there as a pre-op was having to look and ask for the "big people's chair" (i.e. the one without arms) when being seated. It seems like they only had 2 or 3 of those in the whole place. If other guests were already using them, I would have to cram into a regular chair and sit uncomfortably the whole time I was there. Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
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Seriuosly, though, companies should take into consideration and build all public chairs with no arms. These skinny anorexic wannabe's can simply fold their hands in their laps or something!
Maybe I have misunderstood your reply but if not, boy, that is some sort of entitled attitude!
If I pay for that stupid little airline seat - I expect to sit in all of it!!! I don't expect to share it with the person next to me whether they weigh 140bs or 340lbs!!! If someone is too big to sit in the one next to me (that they have paid the same price for) they sure as hell better sit with THEIR hands in their laps ...
Even before my surgery I had NO expectation that people would have to make accommodations for me in a public setting, if it impinged on their comfort or space!! Why should they?
If morbidly obese people want to live in a place where everything is done to accommodate them - have at it!!!! I do think that if there were any money to be made in super sized booths, large airline seats or other accommodations for morbidly obese people, somebody would have done it already?
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There are now choices in many areas, apparently.
We were granted a Chrysler mini-van (T&C) when our new car needed service.
The seats are enormouse, there are cupholders everywhere and it really is made for very large people. The center console is perfect for that fast food foray and there is a table and sliding servinging type apparatus.
The seats were so big, it was unnerving, in fact. Lots of room.
We were glad to get our car back which, by the way was criticised in Consumer Reports for it's narrow seats.
All airline seats are too small, the leg room too short (I'm tall, so putting the seat ahead of me in recline has bruised my knees) I DO pay for first class for a long flight for the leg room. That's because I take up more leg room. That option is also available to an obese person who needs more room.
We want cheap tickets and comfort, but they are mutually exclusive these days. It is just a flying bus anymore. We are supposed to feel lucky we can sit at all instead of stand but I bet they would find a wayto eliminate all seating if they could.
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I agree. I did a lot of international flights at 320 pounds. I did everything I could not to inconvenience anyone around me. Why should they pay because I was fat. HOWEVER! The airlines are making the seats smaller and smaller in an attempt to get more paying seats in one airplane. They should take growing sizes in America (and the rest of the woeld) into consideration.
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They better not get rid of arm rests on airlines. I need them to keep some stranger from spilling into my seat because he thinks he's entitled not just to his space but to mine too! If you don't like them, you can always fold them up.
And when it comes to restaurants, this "anorexic" wants to sit a booth. So bite me.
And when it comes to restaurants, this "anorexic" wants to sit a booth. So bite me.
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The arm rests don't always move. (I am not sure about airlines, I am afraid to fly.) But restaurants should have both....booths as well as table and armless chairs (most do now) so big girl divas like myself can sit comfortably and you "anorexic" wannabe's can have a booth too.
Because if I have been waiting in line for over an hour to be seated at a popular restaurant and the only tables available are those booths because you "anorexic" wannabe's have taken all of the chairs, trust me.....there will be allot of "biting" going on!!!!!!
Because if I have been waiting in line for over an hour to be seated at a popular restaurant and the only tables available are those booths because you "anorexic" wannabe's have taken all of the chairs, trust me.....there will be allot of "biting" going on!!!!!!
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? I say, what difference does it make--I paid for a full glass,so either way I am getting jipped!!!
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