Fat Americans

After changing planes in Narita, I boarded my flight from Tokyo to Singapore. The plane was a Boeing 777, you know, two seats, aisle, five seats, aisle, two more seats. I was situated in the center section. Let's label the seats one through five, starting at the left. With three people in the row, you'd figure that the optimum seating would be a person in seats one, three and five.

I sat in seat one. A Japanese salaryman was seated in two. And a very large man (see title), a "so large that a seat belt extender was required" type person was seated in four. It's too bad that things couldn't be rearranged so that everybody had a buffer of a seat on either side of them.