Ironic that
on the 6th of May
Known to
some as International No Diet Day
News of a
man on a Sydney to L.A. hour flight of 14 hours
Being crushed
not by one but two grossly obese men with as to food no willpower
Bad enough
to be stuck in a narrow seat, no leg room for a flight of 12 hours
But to have
your seat mates’ fat over flowing your arm rest into your body like waves over
a seawall in a hurricane
While looked
on by callous and indifferent flight attendants ignoring this passenger’s agony
and pain
While
airlines like American in their relentless profit quest like a movie horror Honey I Shrunk the Seats
Keep
reducing the service, narrowing the leg room so passenger comfort like a
defeated army is in panic retreat
This
passenger who endured a flight into discomfort and injured hell
Has sued American
Airlines for 100 grand for injuries as most passengers in coach would wish him
well
A flight in
coach should not be the equivalent of a 15th Century peine de forte et dure
A balancing
of obese passengers’ right to fly and a lack of agony and safety to insure
Like luggage
that must fit the dimensions of the overhead carry on bins
Require
maximum body width dimensions to board to one seat fit in
If not one
must buy a second seat on long flights of say two hours or more
Or based on
the number of seats in a row, create an obesity row of two, three or four
No different
than a bus that can only lift six seats to carry two wheel chairs
A minor hit
to profit felt only on full flights seems only fair
Better than
a regulation that after an airline ad always only showing the luxury of first
class
A shot of
passengers without food, comfort, and leg room, sullen on how much longer the
flight would last
© May 6, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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