I was going to talk about Ernie “The Truth” today in another episode of Inside the Real NBA. But I’m going to defer that until Monday.
Today I am going to tell you about the physical specimen that sat beside me on the plane earlier today. I chose an aisle seat towards the front of the plane. The window was occupied by a fellow about my size….6’2, 215 lbs. That is just about the size where airplanes become very uncomfortable. But today there was no one in the middle seat, so we had a reprieve…we thought.
One of the last people to get on the plane decided to sit between us. This normally wouldn’t be a problem, (undesirable – but not a problem) except that this individual was as large as a three-bedroom house. 6’8, maybe 6’9. 370, maybe 380 lbs. If this guy wasn’t a starting nose tackle in the NFL, then he definitely missed his calling. As he approached and his eyes identified the seat beside me, I think I might have gasped. He took up the entire aisle, and his head was nearly hitting the ceiling. When he sat down, he had to put the armrests up. He then asked for a seatbelt extender. But as big as he was, his shoulders were disproportionately big for his body. When he sat down, his shoulder was at least six inches over onto my seat area. I was literally hanging out into the aisle. The flight attendants had to turn sideways to get by me.
It made me ponder the great diversity that is our human race. I also pondered where he bought his clothes, how many Twinkies he could down in one sitting, and whether he might want to join my team next time we get a basketball league together.
Next time – Ernie “The Truth”
