I’m not a big fan of hotel rooms where you have to open the bathroom door to wipe your arse. Or where you had to hunch to sit upright on the toilet.Welcome then, to the Kensington Rooms. In Kensington, surprisingly.
A nice enough hotel, located within a few minute’s trundle of Gloucester Road tube station, deep in the heart of foreign tourists. Contemporary design, perfect location, rooms the size of your chin.There’s no doubt shorter people than I would have managed to fit in a shower no wider than my shoulder blades, but tall people get a raw deal, time and time again.
As an example, let’s consider airlines that charge for seats with additional legroom. Bastards. Absolute, fucking bastards.
Aircraft manufacturers fit airline seating with passengers of average height in mind. Airlines acknowledge this yet seemingly ignore the unspoken consequences of this decision, namely that anybody significantly above average height can’t fit comfortably into the seats.
The average height for men is 5′ 10″. I’m 6′ 4″. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, even a really average one who only got a D- in rocket science class to realise I’m going to have a very uncomfortable flight. Yet airlines have several seats, sometimes a couple of dozen which can accommodate taller people. Who gets them? Anyone prepared to pay for them. Usually people who fit quite adequately into a normal seat, people who don’t need the additional room for a comfortable flight. Nothing makes my piss boil more than seeing a shortarse sat there.
Why don’t I pay the additional fee? Well why the blinking fuck should I? In the case of Virgin Atlantic, it’s £50 each way for additional legroom, which on an economy flight to New York means paying as much as half again. Why should I have to pay to be comfortable anyway?
The first airline to reserve these seats for people over 6′ tall and allocate them on a first-come first-served basis will get my business on every flight. At least more people will be able to fly in comfort, and not have their knees crushed by the mindless prick infront who reclines their seat without giving a fancy fuck for anyonce sitting behind.
Tall people of the world unite. Your time has come, brothers. And sisters, too. Big Amazonian woman. Phwoar.
