The next star of Celebrity Fit Club

Kevin Smith was one of my favorite directors. I remember when I rented Clerks at Blockbuster when I was 14 and riding my bike home to watch what is considered a comedy classic. He then made Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and the Jay and Silent Bob movies. In that time period of becoming a very successful director he didn’t just fatten his wallet, and as a Southwest pilot told Smith… he just got too f’n fat.

Last weekend, Smith was asked to leave a US flight from Oakland to Burbank because he was too fat to fit into the seat. Smith argued that he was not too fat to fit into the seat, with both armrests down, and he could buckle his seat belt.

Something tells me that buckle was as tight as it could possibly get.

Now I’m not a thin man, but I do not consider myself at Smith’s weight class. We can all agree that airline seats are not exactly the most comfortable seats in the world, but are they wide enough? I think so. But at the same time… let’s really look at the facts here.

The pilot saw the opportunity to take money from a rich person. Now, I know the pilot doesn’t get any chunk of the airline’s prices directly but if you do not think there isn’t some incentive deal for them… then you must be out of your mind. The airlines need every cent they can get these days, so when they see that fat people need two seats… they are going to get it out of them.

The ideology is- if you can afford that food, you can afford that seat. That’s the facts, fatty.

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