The first rule of sending nasty texts to yr mates about the person sitting next to you on a plane is don’t send nasty texts to yr mates about the person sitting next to you on a plane.
Why not?
For starters, the person sitting next to you has a 85% chance of seeing it. And if when they do, the rest of the plane trip will be deeply awkward.
A bit of a dunce of a bloke found this out the hard way, after a woman caught him fat shaming her to his mates on text.
Natalie Hage, a who describes herself as an “influencer” and “fat lady”, was on a flight to Los Angeles when she encountered the wild, fat-shaming shithead.
On a post to her 125K strong Insta followers, she wrote that that as soon as she took her seat on the plane, the dude to her left began “loudly huffing, sighing and readjusting himself in his seat” before “furiously texting and purposefully turning the phone away” from her line of vision:
Hage purports the texts were “mean and ugly” and she’s “positive” he took photos of her.
“If you can’t read the texts, it says ‘hopefully she didn’t have any Mexican food’ and his response is ‘I think she ate a Mexican’. Then he proceeds to say he’s leaving a ‘neck mark on the window’ because he’s so smashed against the wall,” wrote Hage.
To make matters even more infuriating, the dude was taking up both armrests. Hage was sitting in the middle seat, and it’s common knowledge that the person in the middle seat gets both arm rests. The cherry on top? She actually forked out AUD$92 extra for a seat with more legroom, to make sure she had enough room.
“From the photos, you can see I’m not in his space. He’s even taken over both arm rests on purpose, coming to my space and digging his elbows into my side…which is in my seat,” Hage continued.
Hage says the next text she saw said: “If the news reports a DFW airbus A321 leaving the runway without rotating, that would be my flight.”
These texts left Hage feeling shithouse (understandably) and she used the post to make a broader point about the daily reality she (and many others) face.
“This is a fat person’s daily reality and not just on a plane. This is on a bus, standing in line at the grocery store, at a concert, on the internet,” she wrote.“You can be completely in your own space, not bothering anyone, and people will still fuck with you and try to hurt you.”
The story has set the internet ablaze, with most people celebrating Hage standing up for herself and not taking any shiet.
A great, important response to brazen arseholery.
Source: Independent.
Photo: @nataliemeansnice / Instagram.
