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Not to give up the bariatric chair for the obese lady?

166 replies

AKMD · 21/01/2010 11:28

I?m 33 weeks pregnant and had an obstetric consultant appointment yesterday afternoon. The antenatal clinic waiting room was packed and there were quite a few women standing up as there weren?t enough chairs. I had been waiting for over an hour as the consultant was running behind schedule and was sitting in the specially wide, reinforced bariatric chair as that was the only one available. A lady came in who was clearly very obese, looked around and saw me sitting in the bariatric chair and came over to stand beside me. Was AIBU not to spring up and offer her the chair? I would have done if there had been any other seats free for me to move to. I did feel a bit bad about it afterwards but TBH I'd been waiting to sit down for ages and felt that she could wait like everyone else.

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AuntieMaggie · 22/01/2010 16:56

pmsl

i tried those love eggs years ago - but i was sure you could hear them clacking!

FimBOW · 22/01/2010 17:07

My parents wouldn't let me have clackers, they said they were too dangerous.

Blondeshavemorefun · 22/01/2010 17:38

love egss have been known to make sains alarm goes off as you walk through the door

i denied everything

LucyEllensmadmummy · 22/01/2010 17:52

you can make them sound really good if you gyrate a bit!

GothDetective · 22/01/2010 18:13

No vibrating function - its just an extra large chair. Hospitals also have bariatric beds, operating tables for obese patients.

LucyEllensmadmummy · 22/01/2010 18:14

oh, for some reason i had vision of a chair with some sort of hydraulics going on with it

AuntieMaggie · 23/01/2010 08:43

lmao at alarms going off!

KimiLivesInStarbucks · 23/01/2010 08:49

Being pregnant and being obese are both self inflicted if you were there first and waited for a seat YANBU not to have given it up to anyone fat or not

RustyBear · 23/01/2010 09:24

GetOrf - love the way you carefully laid out your post with all the bolding & spacing, looks very effective.

It's just a pity you can't spell 'PMSL'

junglist1 · 23/01/2010 14:39

YANBU at all. She was U for standing next to you in expectation.

lucky1979 · 23/01/2010 14:58

At the antenatal clinic I went to in Nottingham the midwife came in regularly and shouted "Anyone who is not a pregnant lady please offer your seat to someone who is".

Lots of very shamefaced men would immediately jump up.

sunburntats · 23/01/2010 15:06

Im a bit that an antenatal clinic would even be able to afford one of these chairs as they cost fecking fortunes!
Ive just priced one up and it was £800!
You must have a very wealthy antenatal dept at your hospital.

AuntieMaggie · 23/01/2010 18:43

who said the woman expected anything?

GetOrfMoiLand · 24/01/2010 20:25

I saw an adevrt this weekend for Bariatric Products (can't remember what exactly) and I shrieked with excitement - saying 'ooh ooh look bariatric is on the telly' to blank and bemused stares from Dp and dd.

They think mumsnet is a strange world.

GetOrfMoiLand · 24/01/2010 20:29

I saw an adevrt this weekend for Bariatric Products (can't remember what exactly) and I shrieked with excitement - saying 'ooh ooh look bariatric is on the telly' to blank and bemused stares from Dp and dd.

They think mumsnet is a strange world.

Bucharest · 25/01/2010 08:25

Ooooh, how very Torchwood....It's mentionitis.

I want to apply for who wants to be a millionaire now in the hope that the last question is bariatric.

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