The topic of switching seats is a never-ending debate — but how old is simply too old to change seats to be near your parents?
Passenger Surya Garg claims she was asked to swap her window seat by a girl who was in the center seat next to her and desired to her son to have Garg’s seat.
“I’m like, ‘Who’s your son?’” the Recent Yorker — who didn’t name the airline — recalled in a TikTok video. “And he or she points to this, like, 6-foot-5 man!”
Garg noted that her son was “a minimum of 16 or 17 years old” and looked like an adult.
She further claimed that while everyone was preparing to get on the plane, he was “talking on the phone to his girlfriend your entire time we were boarding.”
“This was not, like, her ‘child,’” Garg continued. “This was, like, her kid but, like, he’s an adult.”
Admitting she “didn’t know what to do” — and she or he was already settled in her seat and didn’t need to move to the son’s spot, which was a middle seat just a few rows back — Garg chalked the seating arrangements as much as “bad planning” and didn’t move.
“I don’t need to appear like an a-hole, but I don’t think I’m an a-hole in this case,” she said within the 2½-minute clip which has nabbed greater than 439,000 views.
“I said, ‘Look, I’m sorry, no. I paid extra for this seat,” she explained — which reportedly didn’t go down well with the mom.
Garg claims that when she didn’t switch, the lady immediately turned nasty — and hurled profanities under her breath at some point of the flight.
“This woman makes the nastiest face at me I’ve ever experienced, sits down next to me in the center seat that, like, she was assigned to. Her son goes back to the center seat that he’s assigned to within the back, after which — I kid you not — under her breath for, like, everything of the flight, is just, like, muttering profanities at me,” Garg recalled in disbelief.
Followers were solidly on her side and overwhelmingly assured Garg that she didn’t do the incorrect thing — and she or he shouldn’t have been asked to maneuver for a near-grown man in the primary place.
“As a mom who travels with kids, I don’t understand how people don’t plan for this and buy the seats together. I don’t get it! You probably did nothing incorrect!” one woman assured her.
“You’re never within the incorrect for sitting within the seat you paid for,” agreed one other.
Other commenters even jokingly suggested that another person may benefit from the non-switcheroo.
“I used to get so excited after I was teen and got separated from my family while flying lol,” one commenter said.
“That child was def thrilled u said no and he didnt have to take a seat next to her,” chimed in a single person, while one other added, “You are usually not incorrect in anyway, and I worry for her son in every way.”
