"Pete C." wrote in message
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I don't know about that! I remember going to the mall with my mom some
years ago. Could have been 20 to 30 years ago. I was noticing a lot of
really big people there. I made a comment to my mom and she said something
like... Oh, they've always been around! It's just that in the past they
felt they needed to stay in their houses. Now they just go out. I don't
know if this is true or not.
I don't really care what people look like, but I do care when they are in my
space.
I took my daughter to a dance recital a few years ago. The theater was an
older one and the sets were small. I'm not thin but didn't have a problem
fitting in the seats. The leg room was a bit of a problem though. We were
in the balcony. I have long legs. I chose an aisle seat so that I could
lean my legs towards the aisle if need be. I noticed that some of the men
who were in our row had trouble even putting their feet on the floor.
That's how bad the lack of space was. There was this sort of barrier thing
up in front of us.
However, two really large people sat next to my daughter. They could *not*
fit in their seats so as a result, they leaned to the side. The side where
my daughter was sitting. The man was pushing into the woman, the woman was
pushing into my daughter and my daughter was pushing into me! My daughter
and I did not like that one little bit. But there really wasn't much we
could do.
I think the only place they could have seated those two was in the seats for
the handicapped, but those were already full. Those seats were off to the
side and there were free standing chairs there that could be moved to
accommodate wheelchairs.