Portly Stories

Mr. & Mrs. Jumbo

May 13, 2010 Portly Stories

Several of these Portly Stories are similar to my experience. In all the years I have been flying this was the most uncomfortable flight. Maybe not hellish to some, but when you are dead tired on a red eye, it feels hellish. Boarded a red eye from Las Vegas to Atlanta. Located my window seat [...]

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Feeding Frenzy And Arousal

May 10, 2010 Portly Stories

[Mature content] I was on a flight from Dallas to DC, and I got stuck in the middle seat due to last minute changes. As usual, whenever I get stuck with a middle seat, a very large person gets the seat next to me. I am a male with a muscular upper body, so I [...]

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Stranger’s Skin Stresses Passenger

April 14, 2010 Portly Stories

I was traveling alone from Atlanta to San Francisco. I don’t typically travel alone so I don’t often have to deal with sitting next to strangers on the plane, but here I am in the waiting area to board the plane and I see an obese man come over and sit down as well. I [...]

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Dealing With A Claustrophobic

April 7, 2010 Portly Stories

My husband and I were returning from Mexico after a lovely two week vacation. He had the window seat and I had the middle seat. A very large lady seated behind my husband kept standing up and hunching herself under the overhead bins. I noticed she was sweating a lot and breathing quite heavily. That’s [...]

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Polite Policy For Portly People

April 2, 2010 Portly Stories

My husband and I flew from Calgary to London England last fall on British Airways. We checked with the airline a day ahead of time before making our seat selection to find out how full the flight would be. We were told it had lots of empty seats. We decided to each choose window seats [...]

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Squashed By A Ginormous Seatmate

March 31, 2010 Portly Stories

In the summer of ’96 on a trip from BOS to CHI, our flight had been canceled a few hours before scheduled take-off due to supposed mechanical problems. I later learned that AA often canceled this particular flight to condense passengers into other planes when their seats weren’t very full, and “mechanical issues” bought them [...]

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Eating Like A Praying Mantis

March 30, 2010 Portly Stories

Dude… literally… have you seen the way Jaba the Hut sort of lays down sideways in the Star Wars movie? My last flight from Seattle to Frankfurt had me sitting right next to him. Not only was he huge, he also had the urge to use his wife as a pillow and sort of stretch [...]

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Sweaty & Sticky

March 28, 2010 Portly Stories

I was flying from Salt Lake City to Atlanta. The flight was almost full when I booked my flight so my options were limited. The plane was a 767 and I had to pick an aisle seat of three seats in the center column of seats. I was watching people walk down the aisles and [...]

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Thunder Thighs

March 25, 2010 Portly Stories

On a flight from RDU to MCI, the seat next to me on the CJR was empty. I thought nice, no travel companion. However, before the door closed, “THUNDER THIGHS” entered the aircraft, moving sideways down the aisle, and took her seat next to me. She said yes, that is my seat; I got up [...]

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Stuck Reading The Back Seat Garbage

March 24, 2010 Portly Stories

On a recent (long haul) flight, I got stuck in a center seat between two larger sized men. I am a very small framed female, so thought I would try to make the best of it. Why is it that men have to sit in those tiny seats with their knees spread apart as far [...]

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