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Recognizing my own bias or prejudice .....
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Oct 15, 2019 | Replies (173)Comment receiving replies
@contentandwell
Had not checked into this subject in a while, just saw your comment. Of course being fat is not contagious, that is ridiculous. However, some time ago I read that there seems to be a correlation between you and the body type of the people you surround yourself with, namely, if most of your friends are slender, you are more likely to be slender as well. Whether this is because you seek similar looking friends in the first place, or whether you try to be more like them, the effect seems to be the same. Supposedly it also works that you are more likely to gain weight if most people around you are heavy.
Also, while everyone is different, and makes their own choices regarding health and weight, I am somewhat grumpy. On both of my recent flights I was stuck next to a) a very tall, very hefty, young man, and b) a very, very, large lady needing a seat belt extender. While it is their business how they got to that point, I was not pleased to have to share my already shrinking seat with overflowing thighs, and other assorted excess body projections, given that I find sitting for long periods difficult anyway, and need some space to change positions from time to time. I also seem to be the one passenger sure to have a wailing baby close by... but that’s another story. Probably for my next 10 hour overseas flight!
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@ellerbracke
Hi
I hear ya. Crying babies I’ll always forgive. Kicking the back of my seat constantly when the parent is right there is unforgivable.
Sitting next to obese or otherwise annoying people is something we really can’t do anything about unless there happens to be an empty seat. It’s a crap shoot when flying alone and so much better when family is along.
Several years ago coming back from New York with my daughter, son in law and 2 grandkids ((teens), my granddaughter and I were not allowed on the flight because we already boarded. My son in law, who didn’t realize we were not following them in, finally came back out when he saw a woman and a young girl sitting in our seats. We were delayed 20 minutes until the other woman, obviously the grandmother and her granddaughter , came walking off the plane. We found out she was on the wrong flight but had the same seat numbers.
How did she get on in the first place?
Often wish I could teleport myself to my destination. But then I have had the greatest people to sit next to. When smoking was allowed on flights, a women deliberately would not put out her cigarette as we were prepared to buckle up and take off. She smoked it down to the end and then put it out. They couldn’t do anything back then. So we were delayed. I was coming back from Vegas and I kept hoping she had “crapped out” at the dice table lol. They shouldn’t allow drunks on the flights. Don’t know if that has changed.
FL Mary
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@ellerbracke Interestingly, none of my friends were fat! It was meeting new people that I often felt disdain. The group I was friendly with when my children were young all exercised at the Y but I never did. I do think if your friends are all heavy that you may be more apt to gain weight. I see that as being true with some young couples also. I think that has to do with eating the same as your spouse.
That would be very difficult to be surrounded by very overweight people on a flight, particularly a long one like 10 hours! I hope the next time that you go overseas you are surrounded by skinny people.
JK