For the most part I don't mind, but if it is all the way back, I *will* have to use the leverage maneuver to get up out of my seat for the restroom. At that angle there is just no way for someone of my short stature to get up using only the armrests -- my chest will just bounce me right back.
That said, there is a special place in hell for those people that I call seatbreakers. You know who they are. These are the people who refuse to accept that 6 inches is the maximum recline, and who spend the entire flight periodically SLAMMING their body weight against the seat back in an effort to deliberately force the hinge past the stop point. Lately I've had to explain to the FA on nearly every third flight that I *did* bring my seat to the full upright and locked position, only it's broken and will not stay there.
Also, a note about kids in carseats: sometimes reclining in front of a carseat will cause a child's ankles to get trapped between the carseat and the seatback, because sometimes the carseat's leading edge sticks out several inches into the pitch area. Please do check and ease back very slowly on the recline if there is a child in a carseat behind you; the pain of having the weight of an adult suddenly land on his ankles can send even the most well-behaved child into a screaming tailspin. (I had it happen to DS once at about 3 am in the middle of a transatlantic flight when we were all sleeping; the sudden screaming woke the entire plane. The very large gentleman in the seat in front of him could not seem to understand that he was actively causing the problem, and I had to get the lead FA involved before he would pull the seat back up to release DS' legs.)
It is easy to forget that other passengers on your same flight have very different travel habits. I tend to think of our family as having the long flights even though in reality I know we have the medium one. At the end of our last trans atlantic flight the FAs annunced that several people had a tight connection to Deli comming up and oculd the rest of us let them off first. Here I was dragging and so happy to be "home" and those 30ish people were only half way there! One thing that many people fail to realize is that sometimes the person reclining their seat and trying to get a little rest has already been flying for 10, 15 or even 20 hours. Maybe the particualr flight is "just" a couple of hours, but it can be the last leg of a loooong and exhausting day for some of the people on the plane.
He just left your kid trapped and screaming? How awful.
