Non-NSV-Air Travel-I Can't Lie

 

Flew on Monday......

 

Don’t even get me wrong.....I can write about this because I’ve been on the other side the majority of my life.......

 

My flight was on Southwest.... Open seating.... pretty dependable Airline.....I actually like it. Just gotta know how to work it.....Get your boarding pass online ASAP to get the lowest boarding position.....go to rear of plane to get the highest chance of sitting alone.

 

The stewardess announces a full plane...every seat will be occupied......Swell....

 

I’m in my isle seat.....a woman is in the window seat......middle seat is open.....as each person walks towards us the anticipation begins.....

 

Than it happens..... This SMO woman is walking towards us eying the left over middle seats......stops at my row....gestures to me she wants in.....Well fine.... I’m sensitive to the big person.....After trying to wedge a bag into the overhead that was to big (her stomach hit my face while she was pushing her bag in) I get up to let her in.....

 

Dang.... she’s a big one....my trained measuring eyes tell me she is about 5’ 7’’ and about 360.... wedges herself in.....fat is spilling out into my seat under the arm rest.....You get the picture....

 

I sit down.....her arms are well into my air space....only good part was she was way forward so my arms went behind hers.

 

I’m still being sensitive....because she is one of “my people"......what ever......

 

She proceeds to do the “Bag Over Lap Belt" to hide the fact that the seat belt doesn’t reach.....She doesn’t know....that I know what she's doing.(I used to do the same thing!)

 

So.... I’m thinking “This is going to be a long 4 hours"

 

Than....we take off.... I feel that she is emanating “Hot Steamy Rank Body Heat"...... At that point I was officially grossed out..... Sorry....can’t lie.....

 

I thought about what just went down..... This is a situation where the SMO picked the seat in my row because I was of small stature and the person in the window seat was skinny......

 

Again.... don’t get me wrong..... just observations from the other side.....

 

frisco

HAHAHAH! Okay I just laughed out loud in my office. I'm sure the guys outside heard. I can picture the whole thing going down in my head.

 I'm sure it was uncomforatable for her too. 

It is so strange on the other side now. I am super conscious of how I treat those larger than me because it was me in that position before.  When flying I used to do everything in my power to shrink enough not to flow over into the next seat and impose on those sat next to me. I was so self conscious of BO that I used wet wipes and deoderant body spray so as not to emit  any body smells.  Now I notice what those next to me are like where as before I never noticed.  My last flight back from Mexico I had a odorous larger gentleman next to me that flowed over into my space but he made no effort at all to contain himself. Strange what we see now. I am smaller but I still seem to try to contain myself and shrink so as not to touch my seat mate, I wonder if that will ever change?

What's SMO

 Super morbidly obese? Severe morbidly obese? 
One of the 2.

 SMO = Super Morbidly Obese

Super Morbidly Obese

I'll not comment on the original post because I look at things like this a little differently now.

Since my surgery I have not yet flown however I do find myself noticing how many heavy people there are and what their routines are. Boy, to think I used to do alot of the same things to "hide" the fat me.