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This is reportedly a TRUE story.

It appears in the November, 2018, print edition of the Reader's Digest magazine on page 13.


It even mentions the first and last names of the people involved. (I shall use only their first names.)


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1. Savannah boarded a plane and sat next to a sixtysomething man.

2. She noticed he was texting and saw him text these words: "Hey, Babe, I'm sitting next to a smelly fatty."

3. Savannah started crying.

4. Chase was sitting near them. He could also see the sixtysomething's texts.

5. So Chase left his seat and told the sixtysomething: "We are switching seats -- now." Chase explained: "You're texting about her, and I'm not putting up with that."

6. The sixtysomething meekly complied.

7. Chase told Savannah (a perfect stranger) that she should not let that guy get to her.

8. Chase and Savannah "spent the rest of the flight chatting like old friends."

9. Savannah later wrote on her Facebook page: "The flight attendant told him that he was her hero. He wasn't her hero -- he was mine."
 
TheParser said:
This is reportedly a TRUE story.

It appears in the November, 2018, print edition of the Reader's Digest magazine on page 13.


It even mentions the first and last names of the people involved. (I shall use only their first names.)


*****

1. Savannah boarded a plane and sat next to a sixtysomething man.

2. She noticed he was texting and saw him text these words: "Hey, Babe, I'm sitting next to a smelly fatty."

3. Savannah started crying.

4. Chase was sitting near them. He could also see the sixtysomething's texts.

5. So Chase left his seat and told the sixtysomething: "We are switching seats -- now." Chase explained: "You're texting about her, and I'm not putting up with that."

6. The sixtysomething meekly complied.

7. Chase told Savannah (a perfect stranger) that she should not let that guy get to her.

8. Chase and Savannah "spent the rest of the flight chatting like old friends."

9. Savannah later wrote on her Facebook page: "The flight attendant told him that he was her hero. He wasn't her hero -- he was mine."
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So what's your point?
 
TheParser said:
This is reportedly a TRUE story.

It appears in the November, 2018, print edition of the Reader's Digest magazine on page 13.


It even mentions the first and last names of the people involved. (I shall use only their first names.)


*****

1. Savannah boarded a plane and sat next to a sixtysomething man.

2. She noticed he was texting and saw him text these words: "Hey, Babe, I'm sitting next to a smelly fatty."

3. Savannah started crying.

4. Chase was sitting near them. He could also see the sixtysomething's texts.

5. So Chase left his seat and told the sixtysomething: "We are switching seats -- now." Chase explained: "You're texting about her, and I'm not putting up with that."

6. The sixtysomething meekly complied.

7. Chase told Savannah (a perfect stranger) that she should not let that guy get to her.

8. Chase and Savannah "spent the rest of the flight chatting like old friends."

9. Savannah later wrote on her Facebook page: "The flight attendant told him that he was her hero. He wasn't her hero -- he was mine."
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I gotta figure sixtysomething man took not having to sit next to smelly fatty for the win in that exchange.

How do you have it figured?
 
TheParser said:
This is reportedly a TRUE story.

It appears in the November, 2018, print edition of the Reader's Digest magazine on page 13.


It even mentions the first and last names of the people involved. (I shall use only their first names.)


*****

1. Savannah boarded a plane and sat next to a sixtysomething man.

2. She noticed he was texting and saw him text these words: "Hey, Babe, I'm sitting next to a smelly fatty."

3. Savannah started crying.

4. Chase was sitting near them. He could also see the sixtysomething's texts.

5. So Chase left his seat and told the sixtysomething: "We are switching seats -- now." Chase explained: "You're texting about her, and I'm not putting up with that."

6. The sixtysomething meekly complied.

7. Chase told Savannah (a perfect stranger) that she should not let that guy get to her.

8. Chase and Savannah "spent the rest of the flight chatting like old friends."

9. Savannah later wrote on her Facebook page: "The flight attendant told him that he was her hero. He wasn't her hero -- he was mine."
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Why is this an OP?

What is the point?

What is it you are trying to say?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I gotta figure sixtysomething man took not having to sit next to smelly fatty for the win in that exchange.

How do you have it figured?
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maybe the sixty something nasty guy was Trump? It certainty sounds like it would be him.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
How do you have it figured?
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I think that it celebrates ordinary people who stand up for the bullied.

For example, I remember seeing on TV a public service announcement showing a crowded high school hallway.

A bully knocks the books out of the hands of, say, Joe.

A big tough athlete sees this and helps Joe pick up the books.

(Personally, I wish the big tough athlete had beaten the s*** out of the bully.)
 
noonereal said:
maybe the sixty something nasty guy was Trump? It certainty sounds like it would be him.
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We all know that Trump has not flown commercial in decades so we get left with a whole lotta sad.

SAD
 
TheParser said:
I think that it celebrates ordinary people who stand up for the bullied.

For example, I remember seeing on TV a public service announcement showing a crowded high school hallway.

A bully knocks the books out of the hands of, say, Joe.

A big tough athlete sees this and helps Joe pick up the books.

(Personally, I wish the big tough athlete had beaten the s*** out of the bully.)
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There was no bullying by sixty something man....it was the other one.

Then too there was the snooping....VERY RUDE!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
There was no bullying by sixty something man....it was the other one.

Then too there was the snooping....VERY RUDE!
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There's not enough information here to comment on. Did Savannah look over the man's shoulder? Did he shove his phone in her face? Both unlikely.
 
bearpoker said:
There's not enough information here to comment on. Did Savannah look over the man's shoulder? Did he shove his phone in her face? Both unlikely.
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I dont have that much trouble not seeing what other people are texting....is this seriously a problem for you?

It is none of your business what people are saying in that situation.
 
bearpoker said:
There's not enough information here to comment on. Did Savannah look over the man's shoulder? Did he shove his phone in her face? Both unlikely.
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It's very unlikely they both saw the texts and that some 60 year old calls their significant other "babe" isn't that reserved for assholes in under 30?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I dont have that much trouble not seeing what other people are texting....is this seriously a problem for you?

It is none of your business what people are saying in that situation.
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I don't care what other people text. I was simply commenting on how unlikely the whole situation is. It rates a "yea right" on my bull**** meter.
 
americanwoman said:
Appears to have started as a Facebook post.

https://fox4kc.com/2018/05/17/woman...612&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook




I don't believe it.
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You have made a very important point that we should ALL remember when people make accusations of verbal or physical abuse (on Facebook or at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.!).

As you know, the Reader's Digest (bless its little heart) always tries to be upbeat and positive.


The story may, indeed, be true.


But it IS possible that someone wanted her 15 minutes of fame -- and she succeeded.


(Thanks a million for the link. I'm a computer illiterate who can't link.)
 
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TheParser said:
This is reportedly a TRUE story.

It appears in the November, 2018, print edition of the Reader's Digest magazine on page 13.


It even mentions the first and last names of the people involved. (I shall use only their first names.)


*****

1. Savannah boarded a plane and sat next to a sixtysomething man.

2. She noticed he was texting and saw him text these words: "Hey, Babe, I'm sitting next to a smelly fatty."

3. Savannah started crying.

4. Chase was sitting near them. He could also see the sixtysomething's texts.

5. So Chase left his seat and told the sixtysomething: "We are switching seats -- now." Chase explained: "You're texting about her, and I'm not putting up with that."

6. The sixtysomething meekly complied.

7. Chase told Savannah (a perfect stranger) that she should not let that guy get to her.

8. Chase and Savannah "spent the rest of the flight chatting like old friends."

9. Savannah later wrote on her Facebook page: "The flight attendant told him that he was her hero. He wasn't her hero -- he was mine."
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Real nice story, heartwarming. A moral lesson to us all...NOT! :doh

I'm sorry but if this story is true there are a lot of things I find wrong with it, and they don't rest with the "sixty-something" texting to someone about a "smelly fatty" next to him. :no:

1. The man was texting, which means both the overweight woman and the "kind passenger" were snooping into HIS private conversation. He was not shouting it out or making a scene. He was voicing a complaint to someone via private text and that is none of anyone else's business.

2. IMO people who are overweight do not automatically deserve special consideration or protection. Time is long past when people can honestly presume that being overweight is due to a "glandular problem." IMO it should be considered a "lifestyle choice" these days, one easily rectified by diet and exercise.

3. Being overweight is intrusive, especially in situations of cramped confines like planes, trains, busses, and automobiles it is an unwanted intrusion on those around them. Anecdotal story (one I am sure is not unusual); I had a reserved seat on an airline and was forced (i.e. I had no choice) by the airline stewardess to move to the very rear of the plane into one of those seats right up against the restroom wall (you know the one's where you can't lean back?) because an overweight person who paid for ONE SEAT was so large they needed TWO seats to sit in. So I had to spend the next 8 hours cramped between a wall and the passenger seat in front of me (which could lean back into my face). This is not unusual, I have seen this happen to others time and time again.

I am sorry but I have little or no sympathy for the overweight. Fat is NOT "beautiful." Fat is NOT "healthy." Fat is a preventable problem that costs our society in terms of healthcare burdens, and social intrusions like the one described in the "article."

We should not tolerate people who "suffer" from an inability to control their diets, or who blame others for being upset about being "inconvenienced" by their unwanted intrusions into body spaces.

It should not be "accepted," it should be frowned upon, and every effort made to encourage the overweight to lose the weight for their own good and the good of everyone around them.
 
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The sixty-something was more than happy to exchange seats because he would, no longer, be bullied by the overweight, smelly passenger who was taking part of his seat due to girth and forcing her smell on him.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
Real nice story, heartwarming. A moral lesson to us all...NOT! :doh

I'm sorry but if this story is true there are a lot of things I find wrong with it, and they don't rest with the "sixty-something" texting to someone about a "smelly fatty" next to him. :no:

1. The man was texting, which means both the overweight woman and the "kind passenger" were snooping into HIS private conversation. He was not shouting it out or making a scene. He was voicing a complaint to someone via private text and that is none of anyone else's business.

2. IMO people who are overweight do not automatically deserve special consideration or protection. Time is long past when people can honestly presume that being overweight is due to a "glandular problem." IMO it should be considered a "lifestyle choice" these days, one easily rectified by diet and exercise.

3. Being overweight is intrusive, especially in situations of cramped confines like planes, trains, busses, and automobiles it is an unwanted intrusion on those around them. Anecdotal story (one I am sure is not unusual); I had a reserved seat on an airline and was forced (i.e. I had no choice) by the airline stewardess to move to the very rear of the plane into one of those seats right up against the restroom wall (you know the one's where you can't lean back?) because an overweight person who paid for ONE SEAT was so large they needed TWO seats to sit in. So I had to spend the next 8 hours cramped between a wall and the passenger seat in front of me (which could lean back into my face). This is not unusual, I have seen this happen to others time and time again.

I am sorry but I have little or no sympathy for the overweight. Fat is NOT "beautiful." Fat is NOT "healthy." Fat is a preventable problem that costs our society in terms of healthcare burdens, and social intrusions like the one described in the "article."

We should not tolerate people who "suffer" from an inability to control their diets, or who blame others for being upset about being "inconvenienced" by their unwanted intrusions into body spaces.

It should not be "accepted," it should be frowned upon, and every effort made to encourage the overweight to lose the weight for their own good and the good of everyone around them.
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Interesting food for thought.

And what about people who insist on taking comfort animals aboard?

(P.S. I was taken aback by your use of "stewardess." Some people would be offended, I'm guessing.)
 
cabse5 said:
The sixty-something was more than happy to exchange seats because he would, no longer, be bullied by the overweight, smelly passenger who was taking part of his seat due to girth and forcing her smell on him.
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Easy there Nicole!
 
noonereal said:
maybe the sixty something nasty guy was Trump? It certainty sounds like it would be him.
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Or it could be any of the COUNTLESS progressives who insult and ridicule conservative women and wives of republicans. The vast majority of their 'commentary' on Melania Trump has been insulting and disrespectful! Trump SHOULD be criticized when he uses personal insults to describe people, even if his comments are in response to insults or false accusations made by his enemies in the news media and elsewhere. He should ignore personal insults aimed at him(or at least point out THEIR bad behavior, but not in an insulting way). When they make false accusations(every day now), he should occasionally answer the bogus accusations. But do it maturely, with facts, and use it as an opportunity to point out the media's dishonest political agendas.

Having said all that, I'm a bit tired of the overwhelming double standard, which includes harsh criticisms when Trump(or any republican) insults someone, while almost always giving democrats & leftist elites a complete pass when they do it(or worse yet, they are often praised for their bad behavior)!
 
ModerationNow! said:
Or it could be any of the COUNTLESS progressives who insult and ridicule conservative women and wives of republicans. The vast majority of their 'commentary' on Melania Trump has been insulting and disrespectful! Trump SHOULD be criticized when he uses personal insults to describe people, even if his comments are in response to insults or false accusations made by his enemies in the news media and elsewhere. He should ignore personal insults aimed at him(or at least point out THEIR bad behavior, but not in an insulting way). When they make false accusations(every day now), he should occasionally answer the bogus accusations. But do it maturely, with facts, and use it as an opportunity to point out the media's dishonest political agendas.

Having said all that, I'm a bit tired of the overwhelming double standard, which includes harsh criticisms when Trump(or any republican) insults someone, while almost always giving democrats & leftist elites a complete pass when they do it(or worse yet, they are often praised for their bad behavior)!
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What on earth are you talking about? Melania has been treated with kitten gloves.

This is so out of hand. It seems every Trumpet on the planet has learned to just lie and never consider truth.

I do hope the gloves come off after that shocking interview a few days ago. I know my opinion of her just went into the toilet.
 
Texter sounds like a crude person but it is hard for me to feel sorry for someone who reads another person’s private texts.
 
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