Today, I was forced to spend an extra $318 for another plane ticket to Dallas. The ticket wasn't for my daughter, my mom, or my sister, but for the quarter of my butt that apparently needs its own seat. FML
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Today, I paid $140 extra to get more comfort during a flight. The man behind me was so tall that his legs didn't let me recline the seat, and complained every time I tried to during the night. FML
Today, I found out that my dad paid for my sister's friend's airplane ticket so she could attend my sister's wedding. I would have been there myself, but I couldn't afford the airplane ticket. FML
Today, I had to spend a long bus ride with my chest pressed against the window, because some mammoth of a woman decided to squeeze her double wide ass into my seat. FML
Today, I was supposed to fly home for my dad's funeral, but the woman in the seat next to me was so obese, her bulging flesh left absolutely no way for me to sit in my seat. I complained to the stewardess, who then forced me to leave the plane just for raising my voice in frustration. FML
Today, I spent the busiest travel day of the year in the busiest airport in the world trapped between the decision to leave the terminal bathroom or shit my pants. Yes, I missed my flight. Sorry, mom. FML
Today, for an eight-hour flight to Copenhagen, Denmark, I paid extra to get a seat offering more leg room. Unfortunately, the man behind me was so tall, his knees were pressing against my back the entire flight. FML
Today, my daughter found out there was a vacant seat left in first class on our flight and damn if she didn’t pounce on the opportunity to get bumped up into it so fast, because she, “like, deserved a break.” She left me in economy class for a 10-hour flight with her 3 year old and 1 year-old with teething pain. FML
Today, I'm stressing over travel plans yet again. My wife wants to fly standby but the changes in our plans stress me out so much I would rather spend the money. FML
Today, I was flying back home from college with my Mom. At the airport, the ticket agent tells us she only has one ticket listed for Margaret. My mom and I have the same name. American Airlines thought a Margaret had bought two tickets by mistake, so they cancelled one of the transactions. FML
Today, I spent 900 dollars on a ticket for my boyfriend to visit me and he missed the flight. FML
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Miolene 6
well you gotta feel sorry for the person who might have been sat next to you if you hadn't bought the ticket. They would only get 3/4 of a seat for their butt otherwise :P
phorcep 0
some weight: lose it.
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reduska 0
I feel bad for the OP really, if anything I'm near to or under average weight for my height ( 5'7 and 55kg), but I feel it's kind of unfair that at an airport people heavier than me pay the same for a ticket when luggage costs are based so massively on weight. Since they seem to "punish" people for being overweight by forcing them to buy multiple tickets, can't they "reward" underweight people by giving them extra luggage weight allowances xD Feel free to rage or whatever, just an observation, since the cost (or rather.. price) of transporting weight on an airline is so tightly measured.
syedlink27 0
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HBubble 3
FATTY!
Justincolon22 15
ha
phantomdonut 0
Not for nothing, but this situation isn't cut and dry. I always fly economy - always. I've taken a few international flights, which are miserable enough because of spending 8 hours in the same spot in a seat that won't recline and has the lumbar support of a ladder-back dining chair. However, on the way back from my last international trip, I was stuck in one of the middle seats in the center row. On one side of me was a TALL man - he was of average build, but still a big guy because of his height and so he filled his alloted space. The woman next to me was morbidly obese and her sides and were spilling literally three inches over the arm rest. Eight. Hours. I couldn't move for leaning on either of my neighbors. I couldn't sleep, and getting up to walk was a chore - a full row on one side and a large woman with limited mobility on the other. She herself was having a miserable time. She kept shifting, couldn't sleep and it was obvious that the arm rest was digging into her sides. That and she wouldn't look at me the whole time - embarrassment, I'm sure. How was that arrangement fair to either of us? I'm smooshed like a sardine and she's squeezed into this space not meant for someone her size. Giving her more space (i.e. a second seat) would have been only fair. I can't see justifying making her paying full price for the second seat, but half or a third of the price would be fair.
carrietexas 0
Yeah but that's unrealistic, unless there are two very fat people on the plane, then they can share the middle seat!
phantomdonut 0
So many of these comments are cruel. :(
alt3 0
Yeh, people need to LAY OFF. >.>
el_muerte 2
If your blubber spills over into the next seat, even just enough that it's on the armrest, you should have to pay for a second seat. I don't pay to have some sweaty lard spilling onto my lap and you'd better believe I'd complain if someone that fat was next to me.
alt3 0
YDNDI. (You did NOT deserve it). But hey, If I were you I'd take it to court. |:
dogfood_fml 3
LOL, court, americans. Why should the airlines be sued because you're a lazy ass who can't control their eating disorder? Why should the airlines be sued if they charged the amount of money that makes for the space he took?
dogfood_fml 3
It's your wake up call, put down the hamburgers you were going to eat and get out and do some exercise. You deserved it for eating too much.
sanjif 0
wow instead of spending 300 dollars to fly to dallas you should take that money and buy a treadmill... at least this way your making an investment to save money on future trips
zaff97 9
its also a long term employment investment because statistically, skinny people make more money