..so wednesday coming home...i had a hacking cough, felt pretty beat up.....but i got a nice seat right behind first class and thought cool! bulkhead window on row 6 (first on first off ) and the middle is empty! score! ..with a cool lady on the aisle...no little kids adjacent -- location location location !!
..settle in with my magazines and trident splash...when comes through the doorway... a very very large woman.....she's turning this way..oh no...no no no ....the seat spillover issue...well its only a 2 plus hour flight i tell myself..
..turned out not too bad..i had to ask her to move some of her bulk so i could get the tray from inside the armrest..which must have been awkward for her..i could tell she held herself in quite a bit..i am no stick..more like a little thick! ..but to actually overflow the seat, and be seated in the middle...that bulkhead is some desirable real estate to go voluntarily sign up for that...
..i thought about several years ago when i was a bit heavier (quite a bit) than i am but was in major denial about it..i avoided scales, tape measures and full length mirrors
such denial that when i was on a plane (which wasnt often then)..i actually thought they had reduced seat sizes in an airline wide cost cutting measure..and i even openly shared my delusion with other people (on the plane, relatives..)
(it is truly amazing how far people will take their sense of courtesy -- to the extent of not correcting a frank delusion! ....i guess that's why the emperor's new clothes story is such a classic and will always hold true...people would let someone be stark nude on main street and not tell them they're nude rather than hurt their feelings or risk rocking the boat....because no one said anything to correct me -- like: the seats haven't shrunk..or plainer -- you have gotten fat... (or the more polite ''big'' ''husky'' ''large'' ''generously proportioned'' ''plus size'' , even the euphemistic, well maybe youve put on a few pounds..etc)
..and when my clothes were very tight, i actually thought they had shrunk in the wash..amazing the tricks the mind can play..
..i remember Celery and She talking about the Truth Mirror, a special mirror that was touring in Brooklyn..., had a technology that reversed the image so you saw yourself exactly as another person really sees you -- not as you see yourself in the mirror -- which is really a reversed image ..the brain goes into such shock when it sees its actual image that there is a sort of over adjustment -- you process yourself at first as more clownish and a-symmetrical than you really are until the brain adjusts-- picasso-esque..
..the woman demostrating this marvel told them many people cry and sob in despair when they realized how they were actually seen, but a few were happy -- just a few...my daughter was happy. Im sure I would have been upset because Im so asymmetrical.
..settle in with my magazines and trident splash...when comes through the doorway... a very very large woman.....she's turning this way..oh no...no no no ....the seat spillover issue...well its only a 2 plus hour flight i tell myself..
..turned out not too bad..i had to ask her to move some of her bulk so i could get the tray from inside the armrest..which must have been awkward for her..i could tell she held herself in quite a bit..i am no stick..more like a little thick! ..but to actually overflow the seat, and be seated in the middle...that bulkhead is some desirable real estate to go voluntarily sign up for that...
..i thought about several years ago when i was a bit heavier (quite a bit) than i am but was in major denial about it..i avoided scales, tape measures and full length mirrors
such denial that when i was on a plane (which wasnt often then)..i actually thought they had reduced seat sizes in an airline wide cost cutting measure..and i even openly shared my delusion with other people (on the plane, relatives..)
(it is truly amazing how far people will take their sense of courtesy -- to the extent of not correcting a frank delusion! ....i guess that's why the emperor's new clothes story is such a classic and will always hold true...people would let someone be stark nude on main street and not tell them they're nude rather than hurt their feelings or risk rocking the boat....because no one said anything to correct me -- like: the seats haven't shrunk..or plainer -- you have gotten fat... (or the more polite ''big'' ''husky'' ''large'' ''generously proportioned'' ''plus size'' , even the euphemistic, well maybe youve put on a few pounds..etc)
..and when my clothes were very tight, i actually thought they had shrunk in the wash..amazing the tricks the mind can play..
..i remember Celery and She talking about the Truth Mirror, a special mirror that was touring in Brooklyn..., had a technology that reversed the image so you saw yourself exactly as another person really sees you -- not as you see yourself in the mirror -- which is really a reversed image ..the brain goes into such shock when it sees its actual image that there is a sort of over adjustment -- you process yourself at first as more clownish and a-symmetrical than you really are until the brain adjusts-- picasso-esque..
..the woman demostrating this marvel told them many people cry and sob in despair when they realized how they were actually seen, but a few were happy -- just a few...my daughter was happy. Im sure I would have been upset because Im so asymmetrical.
(The woman was convinced Gore would have won the election if he would have only used the Truth Mirror, and changed the side of his hair part. He wasn't getting the way the public was seeing him she said. )
..denial is interesting ..and the adjustments we make to reality..i wonder what despair we'd all be in if we could absorb even the half of it ...but then we'd course correct and be better off, eh??
..denial is interesting ..and the adjustments we make to reality..i wonder what despair we'd all be in if we could absorb even the half of it ...but then we'd course correct and be better off, eh??
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that is pretty freaky! i want to take a look though, where can i find it or buy one?
anonymous: I think of you google "truth Mirror" you could probably find one pretty easily.Theyr'e actually built 3 dimensionally, (like the real world) not your typical 1 dimensional mirror.
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