LOOK MA - NO SEAT BELT EXTENDER!! Major FART!!
Okay, I might as well spill the beans since my divorce was finalized this past Wednesday. The day after Thanksgiving my new sig other and I went to Las Vegas for a few days. NO WE DID NOT GET MARRIED!! Bigamy is just as illegal in GA as it is in TX. Sig other had never been, this was my 11th trip, and had the sky miles to burn. We had a BLAST!! Did a hell of a lot in just five days including Hoover Dam.
This was my first airplane ride post op and 135+ pounds down from my last one back in February! Oddly enough the last flight pre-op was a return flight from Vegas with the now ex-wife. I had asked the cabin attendant for a seat belt extender on that flight and my seat mate across the aisle had too. We got to talking about "fat man" issues that have bothered us all. On that flight I made up my mind that I would get serious about WLS. Physically the trip to Vegas had not been enjoyable at all. I had got very winded every time we walked anywhere and my knees were killing me!
This time HELL YEAH!! Knees felt wonderful and walking was a total breeze. Chided the sig other when we were walking in anticipation of the trip that the "Strip is flat" because the streets in our subdivision are not. They are uphill and downhill since all are dead end cul-de-sacs. Everywhere we ate we were able to eat WLS friendly meals. The whole trip all and all was, like I said earlier a BLAST.
On to the pics. Pretty self explanatory first one shows the slack in the seat belt and other the distance from my deflated stomach to the tray table.
....and just because I liked the back of the man's shirt!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
This was my first airplane ride post op and 135+ pounds down from my last one back in February! Oddly enough the last flight pre-op was a return flight from Vegas with the now ex-wife. I had asked the cabin attendant for a seat belt extender on that flight and my seat mate across the aisle had too. We got to talking about "fat man" issues that have bothered us all. On that flight I made up my mind that I would get serious about WLS. Physically the trip to Vegas had not been enjoyable at all. I had got very winded every time we walked anywhere and my knees were killing me!
This time HELL YEAH!! Knees felt wonderful and walking was a total breeze. Chided the sig other when we were walking in anticipation of the trip that the "Strip is flat" because the streets in our subdivision are not. They are uphill and downhill since all are dead end cul-de-sacs. Everywhere we ate we were able to eat WLS friendly meals. The whole trip all and all was, like I said earlier a BLAST.
On to the pics. Pretty self explanatory first one shows the slack in the seat belt and other the distance from my deflated stomach to the tray table.
....and just because I liked the back of the man's shirt!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 
Great job, Don .. 
Lucky you weren't flying SW though .. You might have gotten the same bit** F.A. I did on a flight I took a few weeks after my WLS ..
I was so happy that I could buckle my belt (I had lost over 50 lbs. already by then), but had my F.A.R.T. ruined when the F.A. came down the aisle to check on everyone before takeoff to make sure they were seated and "in" .. When she came to me she frowned and asked me if I had my belt on .. I assured her I did .. She then kinda scowled and demanded to "see" it .. 
(she claimed she HAD to) ... That made me, quite embarrasedly, have to lift my pannus - a/k/a deflated spare tire - so she could in fact see it was buckled under there .. GRRRRR 
(I should have dropped my pants and showed her the moon, too!)
Lucky you weren't flying SW though .. You might have gotten the same bit** F.A. I did on a flight I took a few weeks after my WLS ..
I was so happy that I could buckle my belt (I had lost over 50 lbs. already by then), but had my F.A.R.T. ruined when the F.A. came down the aisle to check on everyone before takeoff to make sure they were seated and "in" .. When she came to me she frowned and asked me if I had my belt on .. I assured her I did .. She then kinda scowled and demanded to "see" it .. (she claimed she HAD to) ... That made me, quite embarrasedly, have to lift my pannus - a/k/a deflated spare tire - so she could in fact see it was buckled under there .. GRRRRR (I should have dropped my pants and showed her the moon, too!) Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
HW/461 LW/251 GW/189 CW/274 (yep, a DS semi-failure - it happens :-( )
Maybe I've been off too long and seen too many lawyer ads on TV but sounds like a case of discrimination against fat folk! Think I would have had to file in court myself. Have not flown the "cattle cars" in years. Won't even go into TSA getting the sig other's toothpaste but not questioning the garage door opener she was carrying in her purse. 
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!!
I fly almost every moth for worka dn I still need a extender on the smaller plane, mostly the canadinas made one the 380 etc on the 747,757 etc I am fine. I usually ask as I am getting on if I don't need it when it arrives I wave them off. I fly again early Janurary and again early Feb I hope to be extender free in 2009.
BTW you know you can get them for free from your car maker. Just go to the parts Dept adn order them, they have to provide them
BTW you know you can get them for free from your car maker. Just go to the parts Dept adn order them, they have to provide them
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