Flyin'Mom

Derry

I've read all his books.

Traveller

Derry?

Traveller

I was 3 minutes late.

And Thinner was a Stephen King novel. http://www.stephenking.com/pages/works/list_written.php

Flyin'Mom

Yes, I feel you are right. Both are equally uncomfortable for your fellow passengers. But one is accepted and one is vilified.


I think they are the same thing just have different names in different parts of the country. I don't eat stuff like that, I don't really care for sweets. Unless we're talking chocolate...that's a whole 'nother subject.

Flyin'Mom

If there is a prize I'll share it with you Traveller.
Unless it is chocolate. I don't share chocolate.

TidewaterTraveler

I was on a RJ in the exit row and I'm a large guy, but it isn't from eating as much as it is from training. (6'3" 220) Now the seats are narrower than my shoulder width so I'm never comfortable. I was staring out the window when suddenly I'm thrown against the bulk head. This morbidly obese guy sits next to me. Instead of controlling his descent into the seat he let gravity accelerate him to terminal velocity which knocked me over. He the attempts to secure the two ends of the seat belt, but they are shy of meeting each other by a foot or two. I thought this will be my best RJ ride to date. I eyeballed the aircraft searching for an empty seat to move to, no dice. The FA comes by and gives him a seat belt extender, initially. Luckily I was sitting on the window side of the exit row because in a real emergency I am afraid there would be no escape out that exit. Later, the flight attended moved the passenger to a rear seat because she stated the same thing I was thinking. "Sir, any customer requiring the use of a seat belt extension is forbidden to sit in the exit row." etc, etc. He was replaced by a diminiutive pilot, and I thanked the FF deities for my good fortune. So the moral of this story if you are to big to sit in a seat and use the provided seat belt then you are a danger to yourself and everyone around you, and thus shouldn't be allowed to fly.

Traveller

Thanks Mom, but you won fair and square! And chocolate isn't just for breakfast anymore.

Cholula

Actually, I was thinking of Castle Rock, Maine....a town that exists only in Stephen King's delightfully twisted mind.

I don't even want to think of this!!

Flyin'Mom

Oops Traveller...looks like we both jumped the gun on thinking we had the winning answers.

thesaints

Technically "Thinner" is Richard Bachman's

Cholula

Well, I really need to reconsider. Your responses caused me to do a little research on Mr. King.
And he seems to use both Derry, ME and Castle Rock, ME in various books...neither of which exist.
So you guys were right to a degree.
But, as I've posted on other threads, the Golden Rule rules here. He who has the gold...or the winning prize...rules....
So sorry. Castle Rock, ME is the winner......

Which is, of course, a pen name of Stephen King.


Back to the thread subject at hand....."Man sues Delta for being seated next to obese passenger".

sxpsxpsxp

If I'm in the window I usually try to get by with just the window-side armrest. So there, not everyone forgets.

AllanJ

Wouldn't the heavy passenger in the rear be more of a problem during an emergency for which a seat belt is relevant, compared with being in the front?

TV commercial.
(Scene 1 picture) Average looking guy sitting in an airplane seat. F/A and snack cart beside him.
(sound) "Ring Ding, Ring Ding, wish I had a Ring Ding"
(Scene 2 picture) Guy munching on snack, then close up of the wrapper showing the manufacturer's name, I forget whether it was Drake or Hostess.
(sound) Narrator describing how luscious the thing is.
(Scene 3 picture) Same guy, much more bloated, oozing into the next seat, arm rest has been raised, only part of next pax showing but enough to show annoyed expression on his face.
(sound) "Ring Ding, Ring Ding, wish I had another Ring Ding"

(The pictures described are my imagination, the script is actual from back in the 1960's.)

BTW Ring Dings have a lot of chocolate, and yes I eat chocolate for breakfast sometimes.

sibley

You can't have it both ways. If your shoulders are too wide for the seat, you should buy a second seat, just as you want obese people to do. Training and having big shoulders as opposed to a big butt does not make you morally superior to obese flyers.

TidewaterTraveler

No problem I just either roll my shoulders forward or position myself at a slight angle to decrease width. If a FA says I have to buy another seat, so be it. I wouldn't have any problem with the airlines charging by the kilo then the whole process would be fair.