RANT: I don't care if you want to sit next to your kids on the airplane

[Domo]

I would rather sit next to a turkey than some of the nuts that are on the plane.

How about a nutty turkey? One that INSISTED on going, "gobble gobble" the entire flight long?

 

[robinb]

But you're only annoyed because he wouldn't move to suit your needs. You still considered that your mom's seat rather than a seat previously booked for your mom. I think it's totally ok to ask to move seats but don't get miffed and certaintly don't play games with someone because they wouldn't move-that reflects more poorly on you rather than another passenger.

Meh. I'll cut her some slack. Her grandmother died the day before. I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

 

[anneboleyn]

Meh. I'll cut her some slack. Her grandmother died the day before. I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

lol I don’t see not switching seats as being “unkind.” And who knows if the man who wished to remain in the seat that he was assigned wasn’t also going through something rough? I don’t think messing with someone who did nothing wrong can be excused as part of the grieving process.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Meh. I'll cut her some slack. Her grandmother died the day before. I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

Nah I really don't think much has to do with the grandmother's passing. The smiley face and tone of the post does not translate into grief-stricken passenger (sure because it's the internet and I don't have a voice and posture to consider that's up for misinterpretation)

Besides that, while grief can make us do many things, playing trivial games with fellow passengers does not seem to fall along those lines.

You're more than welcome to cut the person some slack totally fine. Me on the other hand I'm more inclined to believe they knew full well how they were and were just annoyed that someone wouldn't move because in their mind they should have. They think it's inconsiderate the other passenger didn't move but doesn't consider it inconsiderate that they played games by getting up to 'pee' multiple times during the flight just because and to stick it to the other passenger if you will.

 

[Jafar30]

This thread is somehow three years old

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

This thread is somehow three years old

Well not quite 3. It's 2 years and just over 5 months old.

It went on for a while then stopped and since then has been revived a few times.

 

[maxiesmom]

I think it was inconsiderate of the guy not to trade an aisle for aisle seat. However, as was pointed out he may have booked that specific seat for a reason, so I'm willing to cut him some slack, not that he needs it. But meeting rude with even more rude is never something well done.

 

[Allison]

I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

But this wasn't about doing or not doing some act of kindness for someone. They didn't actively have to do anything and the situation would have been neutral. They chose to actively and purposely be irritant.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I think some airline employees are starting to get better about enforcing the carry on limits. I've seen them tell passengers to consolidate their stuff including a small bag with a food purchase made in the terminal.

Leaps and bounds over the time I saw someone carry a carton onto the plane. From 10 rows back I could see there was no way it would fit but the gate agents and the fight attendants let this guy on the plane - fuss with the box for a while blocking the aisle and basically halting boarding, then back up off the plane to gate check the box. Have some sense.




That's awful how that woman behaved! She sounds like a gem. On our last flight to MCO, the row in front of us had a woman and child in the middle and window. When the person who reserved the window boarded, the woman politely asked if it was ok and the guy said sure.


On the same flight, my seat was reassigned. I noticed when I checked in that I was now sitting in front of my husband instead of next to him. I wasn't thrilled but I wasn't flipping out because I switched to an aisle seat instead of the middle one. But it turns out the family of 4 we were sitting with had to have called to have an accommodation to get 2 sets of 2 seats together - apparently the parents had to sit together and the teen aged kids had to sit together. Pretty crappy they didn't care about other people on the plane wanting to sit together.

Were you on my flight from Orlando to Pittsburgh in early March? We were in the first boarding group, luckily, but I watched a man in the second group get on the plane carrying an enormous cardboard box and dragging a large carry-on behind him. I watched him stop about halfway down the plane and struggle to put his box in the overhead, holding up boarding. After a little while it became obvious to him that it would not fit so he set it on a seat and wedged his huge carry-on into the overhead bin. Then he sat down next to his box (which was large enough to occupy it's own seat). Then when the plane ran out of seats a flight attendant had to argue with him about moving the box so that a person could sit in the seat, then they argued about gate-checking the box, which apparently was full of some sort of breakables. I felt sorry for the person that ended up sitting next to him, and I still don't understand how he walked onto the plane holding that big cardboard box.

 

[Domo]

This thread is somehow three years old

My mental age

 

[rlk]

i was on an international flight on a B777, the rows were situated as 2-4-2. My grandma passed away a day before our flight, my mom was originally sitting next to me so she cancelled her ticket. We tried to move my dad into her seat but the seat was already given away to someone. I had the window seat, mom had aisle, dad had aisle on the middle seats. We found a guy sitting in my mom's seat, asked if he would be willing to sit in my dad's seat. he looked at it... then said no.

Lets just say, i had to pee quite a bit... :]

Instead of thinking the guy was rude, you should have offered to switch seats with the passenger sitting next to your father. I'm sure that would have gotten you the result you were looking for.

 

[CarolAnn856]

your right, but inconsiderate imo. it was an aisle to aisle seat trade.

Nope. You were the inconsiderate one. That person may have preferred that side of the aisle, and since it was his assigned seat, you had no claim to it.

I recently had a 7-hour flight and specifically chose my aisle seat so I could stretch out my left leg, which is still giving me problems from a surgery in April. Switching to the aisle seat across from me would not have been an equilavent swap for me.

 

[ronandannette]

Meh. I'll cut her some slack. Her grandmother died the day before. I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

I wonder if being purposely nasty to the guy made @Albort feel better? Doesn't sound like a very fitting tribute to Grandma, but whatev...

 

[Wubar]

Nah I really don't think much has to do with the grandmother's passing. The smiley face and tone of the post does not translate into grief-stricken passenger (sure because it's the internet and I don't have a voice and posture to consider that's up for misinterpretation)

Besides that, while grief can make us do many things, playing trivial games with fellow passengers does not seem to fall along those lines.

You're more than welcome to cut the person some slack totally fine. Me on the other hand I'm more inclined to believe they knew full well how they were and were just annoyed that someone wouldn't move because in their mind they should have. They think it's inconsiderate the other passenger didn't move but doesn't consider it inconsiderate that they played games by getting up to 'pee' multiple times during the flight just because and to stick it to the other passenger if you will.

The other passenger could have responded in similar fashion. Especially singing all 15 verses of "American Pie" every time she returned from the bathroom. Having an awful singing voice would just be extra delightful..

 

[Tinkerbell58]

How about a nutty turkey? One that INSISTED on going, "gobble gobble" the entire flight long?

This would then be your in-flight meal.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The other passenger could have responded in similar fashion. Especially singing all 15 verses of "American Pie" every time she returned from the bathroom. Having an awful singing voice would just be extra delightful..

There's 15 verses! I didn't even know that lol

 

[NHdisneylover]

your right, but inconsiderate imo. it was an aisle to aisle seat trade.

My husband has back issues. Due to where the pressure is, he needs to frequently fully extend his left leg when seated. The left one. Not the right. So he ALWAYS books an aisle seat that puts his left leg into the aisle side. He would not trade "an aisle for an aisle" to have the right leg on the outside as he'd be in pain and barely able to walk off the flight after if he did.

How inconsiderate of you to assume your reasons for wanting to sit together are somehow the only valid reasons for wanting particular seats---as you say, to you the seats were equivelant "an aisle for an aisle" I am sorry you had just lost your grandmother---personally I am heartbroken to have lost mine this weekend, but that doesn't mean you were in any way right to keep getting up to inconvience and "punish" someone who did not wan to trade seats with you.

 

[Kellykins1218]

i was on an international flight on a B777, the rows were situated as 2-4-2. My grandma passed away a day before our flight, my mom was originally sitting next to me so she cancelled her ticket. We tried to move my dad into her seat but the seat was already given away to someone. I had the window seat, mom had aisle, dad had aisle on the middle seats. We found a guy sitting in my mom's seat, asked if he would be willing to sit in my dad's seat. he looked at it... then said no.

Lets just say, i had to pee quite a bit... :]

Wow, how mature of you

 

[Aliceacc]

I think that it's inconsiderate-- as in "without due regard for the rights or feelings of others" to assume that anyone else should accommodate you.

You should get the seat you purchased. If that doesn't happen, you should take it up with the airline, not with your fellow passengers. Period.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Meh. I'll cut her some slack. Her grandmother died the day before. I'm sure that she was dealing with her own grief and being kind to a stranger that was not kind to her was probably not on the top of her list.

Having just lost my grandmother---and i am truly heartbroken, I do not cut her slack. The stranger was nether kind nor unkind to her. She intentionally got up often in order to bother him to get back at him for not switching with him. So, he was neutral and she was intentionally unkind. Nope. Not ok.

We all have our bad days and do things we later regret, and grieving might make us more apt to do such things in the moment, but now the moment is long passed and that poster still thinks she was in the right to intentionally disturb someone who did not harm her in any way. I think she's off base.