More fat people on the plane First post here, sorry if the formatting is not right.  I was inspired by a recent post about airplane fatties to share one of my stories with you. So, I travel a lot for work, usually domestic flights, but sometimes international as well. The later usually means between 6 and 10 hours. I always try to choose an exit row aisle seat because of my bad knees. I am not that tall (5' 8"), but if my legs stay bent for prolonged time, it hurts like hell. Anyway, I was coming back from outside US and had to change my flight, so the only available seats were two middle ones at the exit rows across the aisle from each other. When I sat at my assigned seat, I realized that the cushion was almost gone, which meant a long and extremely uncomfortable experience for my poor tailbone and back. I was still wondering whether to switch to the other middle seat across the aisle, when a male ham sat next to me and lifted the arm rest. No, thank you! I got out of there almost jumping over his head with the speed of light and ended up in the other seat between two nice small girls. Several minutes later another ham, this time female (at least 250 lbs), was waddling toward the exit row. Apparently she got the seat I was currently using. The flight was already late, so the flight attendant just suggested to her to take my seat so we can take off. I entertained myself watching the two whales trying to fit and having a cheerful loud conversation meanwhile. The arm rest was down and they were spilling on top of each other. The conversation slowly died and the expressions changed over time once they realized that they were stuck in that position for a long time. I was smiling at them with an expression of pure joy and happiness while preparing for a good night sleep.  The female ham never complained about the missing cushion...With her natural high percentage of insulation, I guess she wasn't even able to feel it...