{"id":2726,"date":"2025-07-16T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:26:07","slug":"i-reserved-an-extra-seat-on-the-plane-for-myself-because-i-am-overweight-and-want-to-make-sure-i-am-comfortable-during-the-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"I reserved an extra seat on the plane for myself because I am overweight and want to make sure I am comfortable during the travel."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I settled into my seat, the woman approached with her toddler and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;need two seats, do you? He\u2019s just a child. He can sit there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I calmly replied, \u201cI actually do. I paid for both, and I need the space to travel comfortably.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She scoffed loud enough for the whole row to hear. \u201cSome people are just selfish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A flight attendant came over, and before she could even speak, I handed her my boarding pass showing both seat numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attendant nodded. \u201cMa\u2019am, this passenger paid for both seats. You\u2019ll need to find your assigned one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman huffed all the way back down the aisle, muttering under her breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten minutes later, she was still glaring at me while wrestling her screaming toddler on her lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I leaned back, pulled out my snacks, and enjoyed the flight in peace \u2014 knowing I had every right to the comfort I had paid for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I settled into my seat, the woman approached with her toddler and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t&nbsp;really&nbsp;need two seats, do you? He\u2019s just a child. He can sit&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nformed24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}