March 9 - Lola and the Fat Suit

Her name was Lola. She wore a fat suit. She used it on her commute to get one of the privileged seats on the subway that were reserved for people who were older, handicapped, pregnant, or with a small child.
Her friends thought she was shameless and ridiculous, but Lola thought they were the ones that were being ridiculous. She had a long commute and getting a seat made it a hell of a lot more tolerable. Most people would gladly give up their privileged seat for someone who deserved it, but if such a person wasn't around, then whatever non-privilegedl person it was who had the seat would just keep it. And since the subway was always super crowded when she got on, she never got a seat.
And so she started wearing the fat suit and it worked. Nine times out of ten, people would stand right up and insist she sit. In the rare cases that they didn't, she got to feel a strong and wholly undeserved sense of moral superiority to them. She would just glare at them, and as other standing passengers noticed the scene and shook their heads at the offending party, her ire would intensify and she would lose herself in her character to the point where she actually believed she was pregnant and thus entitled to that seat, despising whatever callous bastard that wouldn't relinquish it to her.
But most of the time it wasn't a problem at all.
She always wore the same maternity dress over the fat suit and changed out of it in the bathroom of a Burger King a block from her office on the way to work. And then every day after work, she'd go to the same Burger King and put it back on.
Nobody there ever said anything to her.
There were a few embarrassing episodes with the fat suit, though. One time she and the girls went out for drinks after work and she thought it would be hilarious to ride home wearing the fat suit. The other passengers, however, weren't nearly as amused at the sight of a clearly bombed--and as far as they could tell--pregnant woman laughing hysterically while sprawled out on the privileged seats.
Then there was the time when she'd carried her bad mood from work onto the train and bitched a seemingly able-bodied man out for taking up one of the privileged seats and not getting up as soon as she got on board. After her verbal barrage, he strained to stand up and as the train continued on its way, he had a difficult time standing. Through talking to him a few minutes later, she found out that he'd aggravated an old knee injury playing basketball earlier in the evening and was on his way to the hospital.
Whoops.
She felt awful, but it didn't stop her from taking his seat or wearing the fat suit again the next day, week, month, and year because hey, privileged seat.