Film director Kevin Smith tweeted over the weekend about being booted from a Southwest Airlines flight because the captain determined he couldn’t safely fit into just one seat.
I’ve passed the stinkin’ arm-rest-test. And still, the lady asks me to get up and come with her off the plane. I get up without a fuss at all, quietly grab my bag, make eye contact with a fellow Fatty who was praying he’d pass, and leave.
Southwest Airlines apologized but stood by its “customer of size” policy.
Now it’s time for Kevin Smith to apologize to me for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
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I wouldn’t tell Kevin Smith he couldn’t fly because he is fat, I’d tell Kevin Smith he couldn’t fly because he’s a jerk.
Why does Kevin Smith need to apoligize to you for any of his films? Don’t like his work, don’t view it.
@David B, you work for the TSA? Seems like you’d fit the status quo for their brand of evaluating passengers. Dumb and arbitrary.
My guess is that Michael K. is sensitive to the size issue.
Did I even comment about a size issue? I commented about an apparent dislike of Kevin Smith and his work in an article about airline person of size issues.
So far, what little I have witnessed of airline size policies I support.
I am not fan of keeping a film director off a plane just because so and so doesn’t like him or his work.
Also not a fan of the homeland security era TSA, though unrelated to any airline’s passenger policy, I thought I’d take a dumb and arbitrary shot at them anyhow.
What is the “stinking arm rest test”? Would you pass it if you were, say, bone-thin but sweating out a bender? Please, I need to know by 4:30. thx
If he had said f-ing arm rest test, I’d hate to see your question.
Maybe they should put all passengers through an apparatus similar to the ones carry-ons go through.