Most FAs in live-in relationships with fat partners quickly learn that the world wasn't designed for fat people. Stuff doesn't fit. Stuff breaks. Stuff is simply not available.
My engineering mind generally assumes that things are designed to handle about 2X stress, i.e. they won't break until at least twice the load they were designed for. But that is not always the case. Over time, I've had front suspensions collapse, endless frustrations with wheels on roller chairs, toilet seats that just would not hold up, tile floors that cracked and broke, furniture designs that simply could not handle weight, numerous weak links that had to be fixed, etc., etc.
A lot, of course, is weight related. Something that can handle 250 pounds forever may not survive a single 400 pound use. Other stuff seems indestructible. Yet other products seem to always break and you can't even find anything, at any price, that will hold up.
Over time, most FAs who find themselves searching for things that will do the job get pretty good at assessing designs and capacities. Sometimes it's frustrating, as in when you see that just a bit of extra strength would do the job, but no one makes it that way.
Obviously, this affects those with supersize partners the most, but some things are fragile enough to fail even under modest stress.
What's been your experience? Challenges? Frustrations? Ideas? Suggestions?
My engineering mind generally assumes that things are designed to handle about 2X stress, i.e. they won't break until at least twice the load they were designed for. But that is not always the case. Over time, I've had front suspensions collapse, endless frustrations with wheels on roller chairs, toilet seats that just would not hold up, tile floors that cracked and broke, furniture designs that simply could not handle weight, numerous weak links that had to be fixed, etc., etc.
A lot, of course, is weight related. Something that can handle 250 pounds forever may not survive a single 400 pound use. Other stuff seems indestructible. Yet other products seem to always break and you can't even find anything, at any price, that will hold up.
Over time, most FAs who find themselves searching for things that will do the job get pretty good at assessing designs and capacities. Sometimes it's frustrating, as in when you see that just a bit of extra strength would do the job, but no one makes it that way.
Obviously, this affects those with supersize partners the most, but some things are fragile enough to fail even under modest stress.
What's been your experience? Challenges? Frustrations? Ideas? Suggestions?
