He Forced An Obese Man To Switch Plane Seats With His Wife And Got Called Out For Being Fatphobic
Many people who have traveled a lot via airplane know the struggle of someone much bigger than you sitting in the seat next to you and taking up a lot of your room.
Sometimes, you get lucky, and that passenger is willing to swap seats with you, or you can find a seat elsewhere. Other times, you just have to grin and bear it.
A man recently got into an argument with an overweight passenger on a cross-country trip and eventually forced him to switch seats with his slimmer wife.
His flight was traveling from Washington to Florida, and he was careful to purchase a window seat so he would be comfortable on the plane.
After boarding the aircraft, he noticed there was a couple assigned to the two seats beside his. It was a larger, overweight man and his slim wife.
He assumed the man’s wife would take the middle seat to balance things out, but he was wrong.
“Instead, the big guy started to wedge himself into the center seat and proceeded to raise the armrest on my side,” he recalled.
“I put it back down, and he got huffy, saying it pressed into his side and made him uncomfortable.”
He had a lengthy argument with the man, telling him he refused to let him take up his personal space for a six-hour flight. The man then called him fatphobic, and he responded by saying that the man’s ‘life choices‘ shouldn’t make him endure a long flight with someone else spilling over into his seat.
Romolo Tavani – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only
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The large man became more frustrated and acted out by purposefully placing his right foot under the seat in front of him.
At this point, he hailed a flight attendant and inquired about whether there was a different seat available for him to move to, but the plane was booked.
Presenting a compromise, the flight attendant asked the larger man if he would be open to swapping seats with his wife and sitting in the aisle seat.
The man’s wife was fine with that idea, but he still wouldn’t take the aisle seat because he didn’t want to get up anytime his wife went to the bathroom.
That’s when he thanked the flight attendant and sarcastically told her he would actually stand up every 20 to 30 minutes to use the restroom because he had a small bladder. Then he said that if his seatmates switched their seats, he might be able to hold it in.
“[The] big boy finally got the hint and agreed to swap with his wife,” he explained.
“Then, another large passenger chimed in to say I was ignorant and judgmental for forcing him to change seats and embarrassing him in public. I disagree.”
The man’s wife apologized for her husband‘s behavior, and the rest of their travels went without a hitch.
While he does feel bad for judging the man for his lifestyle choices, he doesn’t feel guilty about standing up for his personal space.
Was he wrong to force the man to switch his seat?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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