A woman has blasted a plane passenger for his “sheer entitlement” onboard an 11-hour flight – and she hopes it’ll teach others a lesson.
She explained how she was travelling from New York to Cairo – and made sure to pre-book a window seat on the plane knowing it would be a long, uncomfortable journey.
The woman said on Reddit: “I chose the seat with sleep in mind many months in advance; while I do frequently travel I’m not going to pretend I often jet away to Egypt so this vacation was very planned out.”
However, soon after settling into his seat, she was approached by another passenger who asked whether she’d be willing to swap so he could sit next to his wife.
She said: “The two of them seemed to be with a group of similar aged travellers; it appeared to me based on chatter that it may have been some kind of group tour (knowing the industry and that the organisers may have been negligent in seat assignments, I was absolutely willing to consider a swap if the seat was comparable).
But rather than switching with the passenger in the middle seat, who he believes would have been delighted by the trade, he started to argue with him instead.
“[He was saying] how the view is bad anyway since it’s over the wing, I won’t see anything since it’s mostly overnight and dark, etc. I just reply I plan to sleep against it and decline again,” she said.
“I’m trying to be pleasant, I’m a pleaser, and I’m stuck next to this guy. He continues to bug me like the mosquito he may have been in a former life, and asked me, ‘If you had a husband, wouldn’t you want to sit with him?’.”
In a desperate attempt to get him to leave her alone, she brought up the fact she has a husband and how she would have made sure to pre-book a seat with him ahead of time.
She added: “At this point I’m totally irritated. I stated that I do ‘have a husband’, and if my husband and I were traveling together, I’d not only ensure our seats were assigned together, but if they weren’t, I’d give up my aisle and go sit with my spouse in the middle.
“So naturally I asked where his wife’s seat was. He pointed, and she waved at me from the centre of the middle seats. ‘No, sorry, I’m going to keep my seat’ was my response.”
“He then shut up with direct comments, but grumbling persisted throughout the flight, just not to my face as he pretended to ignore my existence (perfect ending). He was still grumbling when we deplaned.”
Commenting on her post, one user said: “Why can’t people just book a freaking window seat? Why do they always want someone else’s?” Another user added: “He grumbled throughout the flight… this is why I always bring earplugs.”
A third user said: “It’s so good that he asked you about what you’d do if you had a husband. It gave you the perfect opportunity to call him out in his a***hole behaviour.
“It also shows what a terrible husband he is because he took the isle and booked his wife the middle. I’m sure his wife was thrilled not to have to deal with him.”
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