St Louis area trainer posts picture of overweight fan at Cardinals game

emdeesea wrote: »

It really doesn't change the fact that what this trainer did was incredibly unprofessional and unnecessary.

it only adds to the absurdity of this whole thing ...6 pages written about someone that doesn't exist...all we really know is some women was wearing a red t-shirt and sitting in a ball park. Plus it's all on the Internet so maybe none of it happened at all!

So let me get this straight... there is no Beverly, the Jared dude made up the whole story of knowing her only it wasn't the person at the ballpark he knew but another person named Beverly who wasn't in the ball park? OMG!

Seriously? I don't quite see how the Jared dude thinks it's OK to pretend to be someone he doesn't know. He's looking as absurd as the crazy 'trainer' dude.

To those trainers that said this gives them a bad name.. yea.. sure does. Makes you wonder what the trainer is thinking when working with obese clients.

I think I better be done with this silly story... I think it's become more a time suck for us all than anything else.

holly wrote:

As if it's her choice that she's too big for the seat

It was her choice to eat so much she ended up weighing over 400 lb. (It's probably the usual
garden-variety eating too much that's the problem, just like for 99.7% of the population.)
So yes, it was her choice to be too big for the seat.

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sconnie wrote:

what right is it of his to post her photo on the internet or write about her on his Facebook page

She's in public, he's allowed his opinion.
It's a pretty jerk-face thing to do, and I hope his business suffers for it, but he has the same 1A right
to freedom of expression that any of us does. Did he say anything which wasn't true? Truth is a
defense against a charge of defamation, which is about all that could have come from that post of his.

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binky wrote:

BTW, are you an engineer

OMG! LOL!!!
I'd known this guy (older, retired) for probably 5 years, and was on his boat when he was explaining
some of the features to a new person. I hadn't ever had the whole "this is what systems are available"
lecture before, and partway through I broke in to ask if he was an engineer.
I really didn't know, but it just seemed likely from all the redundancy.
Yes, he is.

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bambi wrote:

what is the proper response when there is someone taking up more than their share of
their seat and taking up some of the space that you paid for

Ask them to stay in their space, which obviously is not going to go over well.
Ask them to move.
Ask the staff to move them.
Ask the staff to move you to an equal or better seat with the room/comfort you've paid for.

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afurca wrote:

I'm being penalized for the person I am

You're being asked to pay your fair share for the resources (seats) you use, just like everyone else.

It's just like why larger clothes cost more - they take more fabric. The layout is different, less
efficient, has more waste. I never liked paying more, but since I sew I understood why the upcharge
was there. One of my goals is to get slender enough that I have less wasted fabric, can use smaller
size patterns, lay things out in one normal 45" wide piece of fabric. (Or for my tights, a 58" piece,
because there's only 1 pattern piece, which wraps around & makes one whole leg, with only an
inseam & crotch seam joining the 2.)

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meadow wrote:

I can't understand why anyone would go through the hell of airport/airline travel when
there's Amtrak with full sleeping accommodations for North American travel and the Queen Mary
ocean liner for those British/Euro trips

Expense & speed.

If you take the train, getting a sleeping berth is even more expensive than getting a nice hotel room,
but you get much less space & no private bathroom. Or you can just have a normal seat & hope to
find a place to stretch out overnight, maybe in the observation car. Plus it's a pain to check bags,
because they think they can prohibit certain tools from being carried aboard. You have to notify them
in advance, and if they don't manage to get your notice or find the right kind of baggage car (with a
locking cage, because apparently their normal baggage car isn't secure enough for your baggage not
to be stolen by employees or passengers), you're stuck - either you don't travel or you can't take
your defensive tool.

A plane gets you there at 500 mph, but you have to deal with "security" (as well as being packed into
the plane practically on top of other passengers, even at a healthy weight). Getting publicly groped,
or visually strip searched, or bullied by the TSAgents is not high on my list of fun things to do. In
fact, the last time I got publicly groped I ended up extremely upset because it reminded me of when
I was sexually assaulted. And no, it would not be better to do in private... who knows what the bleep
they'd try to do in that situation!? They could make up anything & there's no camera, no witnesses.
The only time I chose that option was when I had a medical device & really didn't want to take off my
shirt in public.

When I travel, I drive most of the time. Once in a _great_ while I'll put up with the triggering actions
of the TSAgents, the humiliation, their ignoring civil liberties, and accept a plane ticket. Once I took
Amtrak, which other than not being safe / secure and having no place to sleep was a pretty nice way
to travel. Oh, and getting motion sick. (Which I almost never do.) But the bartender was very nice,
gave me a free can of club soda to calm my tummy.

I would take a train if I could get a ticket at a comparable price. I have no clue why it is so much more expensive! It. of course, also takes longer, but I would be happy to just build the extra time in to the trip. BTW, I get an upset tummy every time I fly, my 4 year old, however, has fallen asleep during the landings!