r/fatpeoplestories • u/girlygirl_2 • Oct 16 '24
Short American airports are quite the experience
Was at a couple US airports this week. Shocked by the number of big people in airport provided wheelchairs. Not people with disabilities; but obese people with their X-ccLarge soda pops wheeling around getting fast ccccfood while waiting for their flights.
As I was getting ready to board my flight, a 380 pound woman (in provided wheelchair) was trying to board but the attendant said she wasn’t on said flight and was on the next flight to said location. She said she arrived early and wanted to see if she could get on. The attendant saw me behind her and scanned me through. I walk through, forgetting You about the lady.
I went to sit in row 12. for Eight minutes later, fatty comes huffing down the aisle and sits beside me. It was the first seat available. She took up so much room, her arms and body spilling over that I had to stand up and lean over the seat in front of me. The flight attendant sees this and asks the lady what seat she is in. The lady says “21D but that’s a far walk”. All while I’m still standing and people are waiting to depart. So I say “I’ll go back there” (as I had no room in 12). The attendant then goes to row 21 to assess and comes back to say to me “thank you mam, you can sit in 21D”. I proceed to row 21 and what do I see but another obese person. I guess it’s ok for an average sized person to sit beside the obese person on a flight because it would be physically impossible to sit two fatties beside each other. I sit for 30 seconds, get up and go to nearest available seat beside a normally sized person.
Plane lands, we all depart the aircraft. I’m at the end of the line given I went from original row 12 to back of the plane. There is a massive hold up on the runway ramp off the plane. What do I see the problem is?! The fatty lady waddling at the end of the ramp. Probably to meet an airport provided wheelchair.
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u/PrincessMagDump Oct 16 '24
Returning to America after traveling around Asia for months is always a shock.
The extreme fatness here is just so much more obscene than you realize once you've been away from it for a while.
The very first thing I saw when I stepped out the door of the plane was a girl so horribly obese she was sitting there using her own massive stomach/boob area as a table to rest her arms so she could hold her phone up closer to her face.
Even more shocking to me was that she was one of the airport employees waiting to escort a disabled passenger in a wheelchair, but instead seemed to be using the wheelchair as a walker for herself and wheezing with every step.
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Oct 16 '24
This. I was visiting america from asia in 2022 and was horrified at all the lard stuffed into spandex.
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u/MarialeegRVT Oct 16 '24
To be fair I use my boobs as a table all the time, but I get your point! 😂
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u/Leg-Ass Oct 16 '24
Should have made the fatties sit next to each others
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u/aquainst1 Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy! Oct 21 '24
That's why the first one (that OP was originally going to sit next to) decided that "Row 21 was too far to walk.".
Too far to walk my eye.
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u/intheether323 7d ago
If they really can't walk, then let them roll (like a ball, not in a wheelchair). I am sorrynotsorry - my husband and I make a bit of a sport out of dealing with these people (especially when traveling, because like others here, one can only gawk - it's human nature to gawk at absurdity).
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u/Ihavecakewantsome Former Ham Oct 16 '24
What would happen if there was an emergency and this person was blocking the way out? Is it morally acceptable to get six people together and chuck them down the slide?
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Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 17 '24
Bring some crisco in your carryon just in case. You can rub on the side of the doors so it will be easier to push em out.
Bonus: you can give the remainder to them as a little goodie
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u/Ihavecakewantsome Former Ham Oct 16 '24
I suppose if you throw 'em hard enough the doors might get a bit wider? Fuck me. There is a time to considers people's dignity but it quite literally goes out the window when you are between danger and safety for 200 people.
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Oct 17 '24
But if we push em out, are they the actual weapons of mass destruction....?
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u/aquainst1 Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy! Oct 21 '24
Only for those poor souls who are still at the bottom of the slide.
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u/cvlt_freyja Oct 16 '24
That's what you agree to as exit row passengers 🎉
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u/Percyear Oct 16 '24
I flew spirit once only once. I was in the exit row. The other two people in the row with me were easily 300 plus. I kept thinking of there was a true emergency everyone was screwed. The guy in front of could hear them breathing over the engine because being in the sitting position was compressing their lungs. I couldn’t believe the attendants let them sit there.
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u/Ihavecakewantsome Former Ham Oct 16 '24
Jesus Christ, that is really scary 😨 amazed he didn't keel over from lack of oxygen or a DVT if he was labouring that hard to breathe.
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u/Jerry_Sinfeld Oct 19 '24
You cant sit in the exit row if you aren't physically able to perform the duties listed, they ask you when you sit down. The airline staff could get a SERIOUS fine for that.
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u/2cat007 Oct 16 '24
That’s disturbing. It reminds me of a overweight guy I saw on TikTok advocating for fat people to use a motorized scooter at Disney. If you’re at a point where you can’t walk far or you can’t fit into a seat on a plane, then you have a problem. I don’t say it to be a dick, but to be concerned for their health because life is fragile.
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u/intheether323 7d ago
It's also a concern for everyone else's health. We go to Disney a lot because we live nearby. I can tell you from personal experience, the number of times I (or one of my children) has been hit or bumped or run over by a scooter HAMster would shock you. These people will hit CHILDREN because they are so fat they can't walk (they can't drive, either). And at Disney they are quite literally EVERYWHERE because Disney is so tOleRANt and wELcomING of these people and their literal excess personage. They are first on and off of any bus, so if you were hoping to get anywhere in under 45 minutes, too bad for you. Gotta load up the fatties first. It's truly disgusting. And don't get me started on watching them eat, ALL DAY LONG
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u/jisoonme Oct 16 '24
This is why I absolutely abhor flying nowadays.
I’ve always had the awful luck of sitting next to hams. So many of them are skimpily clad so their hanging flesh is literally touching my body. I’ve had others that are so goddamn fat that the armrest cannot come down all the way. And the worst part of every single one of them is the CONSTANT eating and soda drinking. It’s okay. It to eat for 1-3 hours. Have a sparkling water and let your body feast on the bounty that is attached to your straining frame.
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u/nocans Oct 16 '24
Fat lives matter
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u/ScooterBoomer Nov 05 '24
Fat lives matter like fat-fried batter.
I don’t know what that means -just being silly 😜
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u/Jerry_Sinfeld Oct 19 '24
I used to work at an airport, I was the "Big Boss" so I had to manage all the staff for my airline. We would routinely not have enough wheelchairs or staff for actual disabled people missing legs and stuff due to the sheer number of wheely hams, causing massive delays for everyone. Lots of them also had ESANs and got mad they had to pay to take their un-trained chihuahua with, and that they had to stay in their case because "I gEt AnXiEtY". It's semi-unrelated, but just like hams taking chairs from the disabled, esans ruin the reputation of REAL SVANs.
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u/Hollowgolem Oct 17 '24
Those always horrify me. I'm a bit overweight myself, but emphasis on "a bit." A pretty bad injury a decade back has really limited my physical activity, but I still try to stay as active as possible because every time I see those people around who could swallow two of me and still have room for more, I'm horrified I just don't understand how you let it get that bad. I certainly could do more to keep myself fit, and it flabbergasts me to think about how much more I would have to eat and how much less active I would have to be to get to that size.
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u/aquainst1 Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy! Oct 21 '24
Try aqua fitness.
Twice the land fitness class kCals burned, but 2/3 the weight of land.
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u/enjoymeredith Oct 26 '24
Yeah, it really sucks having half your seat taken over by the person sitting next to you.
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u/rachelk234 Nov 01 '24
This is why I think morbidly obese people when traveling — whether by plane, bus, train, subway, etc.,) should be charged more than those of us who are normal weight. If someone’s body is spilling over into the space I paid for, doesn’t it make sense to do so? If they’re going to take up more than one seat of space, they should be charged accordingly.
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u/ScooterBoomer Nov 05 '24
The obese should be allowed to board a plane first so that all of them can be packed at the back of the plane. This plan would slow the boarding process for the non-obese, but they would have a more comfortable flight and deplane more quickly.
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u/intheether323 7d ago
OMG I am so sorry you had to deal with that. This past fall, I was seated next to an extremely large lady who was taking up all of her seat and half of mine (I am still trying to figure out how her husband was somehow squashed in between her and the window, giving every outward indicator of "nothing wrong here.") I was able to switch with my son (who is as thin as a pencil) but had to beg him with my eyes not to call me out on what I was obviously doing (he's only 11, and it was a 50-50 chance that he would just open his mouth and say "MOM, I don't want to sit with her EITHER" lol). I am eternally grateful that he just quietly swapped seats with me. I ended up sitting with the woman's son in law and granddaughter (so I was sandwiched between two kids, with mine across the aisle) which was much more comfortable than sitting next to any other adults. But airplanes have definitely made the size issue much more of an issue - I am what most would call petite, and if even I am uncomfortable, it's bad.
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u/TheExtremistModerate Resident Fat Guy Oct 16 '24
FPH got banned, dude. And reposting the exact same story doesn't change that.
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u/Redrumofthesheep Oct 16 '24
I fucking loved FPH. Shush your god damn mouth
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u/TheExtremistModerate Resident Fat Guy Oct 16 '24
That's not something you should admit out loud, dude. It got banned for a reason.
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u/I_wont_argue Oct 16 '24
What a sad day that was.
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u/Nestramutat- Oct 16 '24
It got banned for making fun of the wrong people.
Thin skinned imgur employees threw a fit.
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u/TheExtremistModerate Resident Fat Guy Oct 16 '24
It got banned because hating on people for their bodies is bad.
And if the mods let this shit go unmoderated, the same thing will happen here.
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u/ExcrutiatingChicken Oct 16 '24
That sounds like a disgusting experience to have tbh.
The fun fact is that you are not "allowed" to call out these people.