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Over the weekend, I went to a wrestling show with some friends.\u00a0 Not just any show, but a WWE<\/em> show \u2013 NXT\u2019s Great American Bash<\/em> to be specific.\u00a0 It was the first of three shows the E was running in Atlanta over the weekend, and although I was interested in either of the other two shows, GAB won out because:<\/span><\/p>\n All shade about the WWE, their parent company TKO and their predatory decimation of the fan experience aside, I was looking forward to this show a lot, because I\u2019ve always had good experiences with NXT, I always love watching wrestling at Center Stage, and it was a small reprieve from parenting for an afternoon with some friends.<\/span><\/p>\n The show itself was decent; a little below my expectations as far as NXT goes, not to mention this was technically a PLE, which meant that I would\u2019ve expected a little bit more.\u00a0 But considering how much B-or lower tier wrestling I see in this building, the level of polish from a WWE show is evident.<\/span><\/p>\n However, my biggest complaint of the whole event and getting to the point of this post was simply the fact that I had the unfortunate misfortune to have been seated next to an extremely obese person whose body continuously transcended the boundaries of their own seat, and I had to spent nearly the entire show rubbing shoulders and legs with this person and it was rather unpleasant and had a tangible negative influence on my general enjoyment of the show outright.<\/span><\/p>\n Let me also point out that Center Stage was built in the 60s and hasn\u2019t really changed much since then, meaning the seats haven\u2019t been renovated and maximized like on an airplane, meaning reduced in order to shoehorn as many people in as possible.\u00a0 They\u2019re actually very generous and comfortable seats, when seated next to ordinary human beings.\u00a0 Just for context at being able to picture the size of the person that effectively put a damper on my entire experience.<\/span><\/p>\n Now before anyone can immediately accuse me of being a fatphobic asshole, I do believe large people have the same rights as everyone else.\u00a0 They shouldn\u2019t be denied the ability to enjoy things like live experiences and travel because of their size.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I do think that society has been way too quick to deem obesity and all other forms of habits of excess as, addiction, and labeling addiction as a disease, instead of what I think it is, bad habits gone rampant with those with them lacking the willpower and fortitude to try and break them.\u00a0 The fat guy seated next to me wasn\u2019t fat because he has the disease of addiction, he\u2019s fat because like so many stereotypical wrestling fans, he\u2019s a guy who doesn\u2019t exercise, watches too much tv and eats way too much shitty food, and is completely at peace with such lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n When my friends and I got inside the arena and we were heading up to our seats, I knew it was going to be unpleasant when we got to our row, and he was sitting in one our seats, because the friend he came with was also a big guy, and in typical bro mentality, if you can give a bro space, you give a bro space, but this was a WWE show that was known to be 95%+ sold out.\u00a0 He was quick to vacate and move to his actual seat and wasn\u2019t a dick about it, but I knew that one of my party was going to have take one for the team and be the unfortunate one to have to sit next to him.<\/span><\/p>\n And seeing as how this show was my idea, and it had a way higher cost than what my friends were probably thinking, who aren\u2019t nearly the wrestling fans that I am, I quickly decided that it should probably be me to be the one to eat the shit sandwich, because I\u2019ll do my best to find enjoyment in the show itself, but I\u2019d feel like shit if one of my friends who was probably more there to hang out and casually watch, had to be the one whose experience was ruined by having 3\/5 of a seat to watch from.<\/span><\/p>\n If being pissed at having to sit next to a guy like this, oozing into my personal space makes me fatphobic, then I guess I am a little fatphobic after all, because there\u2019s not one iota of me that doesn\u2019t believe anyone, whether they believe that they’re fatphobic or not, wouldn\u2019t be absolutely miserable in the conditions I was in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I paid a lot of money to go to an event I was really looking forward to, and my general enjoyment of the whole thing was completely sandbagged by virtue of having to sit next to a morbidly obese person whose physical mass was all up in my business for the entire show.<\/span><\/p>\n I know it sounds like a terrible, shitty thing to say or write out, but it\u2019s the honest truth, and I don\u2019t think many people in my circumstances would feel differently.\u00a0 I do not hate the guy for being large, and he has every right to be there as all other paying attendees were.\u00a0 But I am disappointed and upset with his life\u2019s choices that led to him being the size he was, and disappointed that I was the poor unfortunate soul to have to end up sitting next to him.<\/span><\/p>\n I like to believe that I\u2019m not a fatphobic person, seeing as how I could definitely afford to lose 30 pounds or so myself, but I\u2019m also not going to lie and say that my experience at NXT wasn\u2019t neutered by having the unpleasant feeling of a morbidly obese person all up in my space the entire show.\u00a0 It sucks because this is one of those things that nothing can be done about, because it\u2019s not like when you\u2019re buying tickets for any sort of show, there\u2019s specially designated sections for larger people.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically just a massive game of Russian Roulette whenever you purchase a seat(s) to anything, and pray that you\u2019re not next to a large person.<\/span><\/p>\n And it\u2019s shit like this that really makes me averse to leave the house, and go out and experience things.\u00a0 Inevitably, other people have the ability to ruin everything, whether they\u2019re doing it deliberately or not.\u00a0 I maintain that there\u2019s no better place to watch wrestling than at Center Stage, but after an experience like this one, I might have some pause the next time NXT rolls around, because it will be packed, it will be expensive, and my chances of ending up in a situation like this one are tremendously higher than any of the other lower-tier wrestling shows that\u2019s book there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the weekend, I went to a wrestling show with some friends.\u00a0 Not just any show, but a WWE show \u2013 NXT\u2019s Great American Bash to be specific.\u00a0 It was the first of three shows the E was running in Atlanta over the weekend, and although I was interested in either of the other two … Continue reading Does this mean I\u2019m 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