March 8, 2005
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Here’s a question for you…
Do you think that VERY overweight people should be forced to pay more on public transport??
I ask because travelling back from my ‘Holiday From Hell’ or as the boyf. calls it – “the trip we will never speak of again’, I ended up jammed (almost literally) between two people who must have been over 21 stone (and even if you measure that in metric that’s heavy!) they were so fat that that the overspill of them meant that I had to sit forward for the entire four and a half hour journey or make physical contact with their bodies (I have a bit of a phobia about touching or being touched by other people unless I have consented!). There wasn’t a seat free and the heat emanating from their bodies had me sweating – yuck!
Those who have read me for a while now know that I am not exactly dainty but when I woke up this morning with aching muscles from having to contort myself in that plane chair I really began to feel quite ‘size-ist’!
Of course the plane people could also do with making the chairs larger.
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Yes possibly a ‘size charge supplement’ would be something that airlines would consider but there would be that much of an outcry that they’d have to back down.
It would be something I need to slim down for as I want to fly to New Zealand to see my mate who is emigrating there this week. I couldn’t cope with all that weight of mine on that length of flight.
Perhaps we should make Cadburys and Walkers crisps pay a supplementary tax that they cannot pass on to consumers of their products – the cash could be given to the plane manufacturers to make bigger, more comfortable seats!!
I have a great mate in N.Z. that I would love to visit but I want to go by boat! It is possible to travel on a tanker or something like that. It’d take ages but no DVT worries!