She needed to envision her flight privilege.
As if seat swap requests weren’t annoying enough, now it seems that pushy passengers are snatching up airplane seats without permission.
An appalled passenger recounted having their seat occupied by an entitled woman, who then told them they may sit some other place, per a post making the rounds on Reddit.
The unnamed flyer, who was on an 8-hour flight to an undisclosed destination, described how they hadn’t paid “extra” for any seat and had decided to take a seat anywhere they were assigned.
As luck would have it, the flyer scored a window seat — which they were grateful for given the length of the journey.
“I desired to sleep with the wall support the window seat offers,” recalled the eager Redditor.
Nonetheless, the passenger’s dreams of a soothing flight crashed and burned after they boarded the plane and saw that a “lady” was already sitting of their seat.
To make matters worse, the air barbarian appeared none too willing to maneuver.
“She says ‘Oh, I didn’t realize. You may just sit here,’ and points to the center seat,” described the meek flyer.
Unfortunately, the flyer ended up capitulating to the ludicrous suggestion.
“I even have a tough time with confrontation so I just accepted it,” lamented the Redditor, who asked the commentariat what they’d’ve done of their shoes.
Fortunately, the sympathetic Redditors had a number of suggestions with one advising, “Just say, ‘I’d fairly have my window seat thanks.’ And if that doesn’t work tell a flight attendant.”
“My response is all the time ‘Oh, no thanks’ and I just stare at them until they move,” said one other.
One told the passenger that they need to simply tell the wrongdoer, “No, that doesn’t really work for me. I’d like my seat.”
One other suggested the poster could “feign ignorance” to avoid seeming confrontational.
“Take a look at your boarding ticket, say ‘My seat is 35A,’ look above, and check the seating arrangement,” they wrote. They then advised the passenger to “act confused” and ask them what their ticket says, before calling a flight attendant and “informing” them that there was a “mistake.”
Many thought the girl commandeered the passenger’s seat on purpose given how comfortable she was telling the Redditor to take a seat in the center.
One recalled an analogous situation on a flight.
“Some guy tried to take my seat and stick me in his middle seat across the aisle so he could sit together with his wife and teenager and I said ‘Oh, no thanks. I picked this seat intentionally after I checked in,” they recounted. “He starts throwing a hissy fit, attempting to get me to take his middle seat, and the flight attendant swooped in like a freaking goddess, and told him to maneuver.”
The commenter continued, “He goes to the opposite side, still moaning, and banged his head on the bags compartment so hard that three rows price of individuals audibly gasped. The kicker is that I sat next to the wife and kid, and so they didn’t say a single word to one another all the flight.”
