"Why did I get married?"

So I was watching “why did I get married “ by Tyler Perry for the umpteenth time, and I couldn’t but notice the part where the third couple, overweight Shelia (Jill Scott) and Mike (Richard T. Jones) were on the plane to Colorado for their annual week-long reunion and Shelia is made to deplane because of her weight …and she had to drive the long distance in the snow. Are people actually made to deplane because of their size? I mean I have sen it in movies but ermmI like to believe it doesn't really happen.



 I asked a lot of my friends if they have ever witnessed anything like that and one of them actually confirmed it, she said she witnessed it once. That is so embarrassing. If “fat” people really need to purchase two tickets, couldn’t they have been told before boarding, why should it always be done in the plane? And I’m also thinking is there some form of scale to measure who buys two tickets and who doesn’t?

I later found out that some airlines have a policy that says “If you can't fit in one seat, you have to buy two. And if you can't find two on the flight you showed up for, you'll have to buy two on a later flight”. Although I think I understand these airlines’ point of view, they sell space and a price has been created for that space and so if you take more than that amount of space you have to pay more.

It’s just like the weighing in your boxes before any take off, if your stuff weighs more than the standard kg, you get to pay extra. You wouldn’t say its discrimination against people that don’t have as much load; it just won’t be fair to make everyone pay the same rate for their stuff, right?

Slim people are be are entitled to complain because they paid for one seat, just as the fat person beside them did, and they are not getting what they paid for because the person next to them is taking up more than that for which they paid. I know the money paid not only covers our passage from one destination to another, but it also covers for the amount of space on the plane as evidenced by the price difference between first class and coach. I get all that.

I just think there is a better way to address the issue especially because the it lies with the ground crews and the flight attendants to determine whether or not a person is required to buy two seats, I think it would be more comfortable to have seats in a private area at the airport, just like that thingy that checks if our luggage fit,..So everyone is made to sit on the chair or seat… like some form of measurement and if any part of you doesn’t fit in the seat then you can make plans to buy a second seat either on that plane or the next. My point is, any decision should happen BEFORE you get on the plane and no one should ever go through the embarrassment of being kicked off a flight because of size.