So, given the openness of subject in the final week of the year, there was an article in the Daily Mail that I think is representative of the breakdown in clear moral thinking.
I'm fat and refused to give a toddler the extra seat I paid for on a flight.
That's the title.
His mom lost it at me, and angry passengers took her side.
An obese woman has come under fire after refusing to give up her second airplane seat for a fussy toddler, but she believes she's done nothing wrong.
The 34-year-old woman originally booked two seats on her cross-country flight because of previous experiences being unable to comfortably fit into one seat.
She was excited to visit her family for Christmas, but everything went downhill when a young mother demanded she, quote, squeeze into one seat, unquote, so that her son could sit in the other.
Now, Mr. Producer, is there a shred of doubt in your mind that she is right?
You're talking about the obese woman.
The obese woman.
No, there's not.
It's 100%.
100% clear.
That's why I chose this story.
This is a microcosm of the perverse thinking that the left world has put in people.
I am obese, she admitted on Reddit.
I'm actively working toward losing weight, and I've made progress, but I booked an extra seat because I'm fat.
She revealed that she insisted on keeping her second seat because she paid for it.
But it ruined the rest of her journey.
The mother made a big fuss over it, and she told the flight attendant I was stealing the seat from her son.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It is hard to steal something you've paid for.
That is right.
Then I showed her my boarding passes, proving that I paid for the extra seat.
The flight attendant asked me if I could try to squeeze in.
That is depressing.
This story is depressing.
But I said, no, I wanted the extra seat I paid for.
This poor woman is thinking, is the world crazy?
Isn't that the point of my buying an extra seat?
It's my seat.
it's my seat because the child was only eighteen months old he didn't need his own seat and could have sat on his mother's lap for the duration of the flight but the mother was hoping for some respite from a squirmy toddler The passenger said, I got dirty looks and passive-aggressive remarks from her for the entire flight.
And I do feel a little bad because the boy looked hard to control.
But am I in the wrong?
Are you in the wrong?
Oh my God.
She should have said, okay, give me the money that I paid for for that seat.
Many slammed the mother and the flight attendant for their horrific behavior.
Well, that's good.
The mom is an a-hole for not buying a seat for her son and assuming someone else would give up a seat they had paid for.
One passenger said, odds are she was hoping there'd be extra seats on the flight so she didn't have to pay and use the lap thing as a loophole.
What's even the point of the extra seat if the flight attendants are going to let entitled people bully others into giving it up?
The flight attendant is the one that bothers me the most.
I have to say, because I fly on average every week of the year.
So if I miss a week, I fly twice the other week.
And so I am on planes at least 50 times a year.
So I have a lot of experience with this.
There is the world of people who work for airlines, like every other group on earth, is divided between the decent and the indecent.
But in this case, it's not even decent and indecent.
It's those who believe that they have a role to play to protect the rules of flying and those who do not.
The worst offenders are Southwest Airlines, an airline I try to avoid whenever possible.
You buy an extra expensive ticket called Business Select to choose the seat that you want to sit in, but they allow anybody who boards early, and there's a gigantic line of people walking on the plane who presumably got a doctor's note to be able to do so.
So there's no point in buying the extra fare seat because the handful of seats that have extra room are taken by others who didn't pay extra.
Nobody on Southwest, in my experience, in 20 years, 30 years, I don't know how long it is, has ever told these people you can't sit in those seats.
I avoid Southwest.
Southwest screwed up again this year.
Did you see that?
How many airlines, how many flights they like, well, last year was horrible.
This year, they were the worst airline in terms of canceled flights again.
But people, I guess, Southwest is you get what you pay for.
So don't expect that your flight not be canceled.
A lot of sweet people too in Southwest, like every other endeavor.
But anyway, that's an example of employees not enforcing rules.
Or airlines where you, again, you pay for extra money for a seat and you don't board first.
United is an example.
You're in, what is it, boarding group one, but you're with many, many other people.
Now, that doesn't affect most of you, and I'm not saying it doesn't ruin my day.
But a better example is where people who should not be boarding do board, and they don't tell them, I'm sorry, you can't board now.
This is not your section.
This, however, is the most egregious example I have yet heard of flight attendants not enforcing not only the rule of an airline, not enforcing morality.
It's uh what's the point of an extra seat if the flight attendants are going to let entitled people bully others into giving it up? asked another passenger.
People buy entire seats for high-end musical equipment.
Not even people.
Their lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on your part, a man wrote.
But others blamed the woman for causing an inconvenience.
If you're so fat that you have to have more than one seat on an airplane, then you are selfish, one said.
Is that unbelievable?
Unbelievable.
Oh, God, you know, I have in my list, my bucket list, is to interview such people.
I'd like to know how the mind that cannot think clearly works.
Flights overbook all the time, especially during the holidays.
How can you justify having two seats for yourself?