Bigger in Texas

This is post #100 here on Platinum Elite.

On Monday, I flew to DFW, deplaning and walking through the very same gate area in which I sat last October, delayed and forced to listen to "entitled" fellow Airworldians complain about a multitiude of travel maladies.

This week, on our full flight from IAH-DFW, I found a particular irony in the size of Continental's coach cabin, the smaller distance between rows in coach, and the larger relative size of Texans. People here are simply bigger than citizens of other U.S. cities - wider and thicker, there's just more human mass here. I sat in seat 7F waching others board, wondering if we were going to have to dump fuel into the Gulf of Mexico because we were over the allowed weight for the aircraft.