Flying onboard an airplane can be incredibly tedious, but fortunately, a comfortable seat can help ease the journey.
Those looking for a restful journey often select a particular seat to help things go smoothly, leading to drama when they are forced to give it up.
After settling in for a five-hour flight, one man was left seething after he was forced to switch seats "five times" - all before take-off.
Taking to popular forum site Reddit, the man claimed that he initially switched seats out of goodwill but will "never" offer again after the fiasco.
He explained: "This was about eight years ago. I'm dead tired. Working and tindering in New York for the last week, my first trip ever there. I'm completely exhausted from working long hours and lack of sleep from going out at night."
The man went on: "I'm looking forward to crashing in my seat; I've prepped by taking some NyQuil sleeping pills. The seats to know are in row 12. ABC DEF.
"When walking down the aisle to my row. Seats CDEF are all taken. I'm holding my ticket for 12F. Of course, I mention to the woman in my seat that she has my seat. She claims it's hers and I must be mistaken.
"She has to dig through her bag forever to find her ticket to see she has 12A and asks if I'll just take her seat so she won't have to move as she's 'settled'. Fine. Same seat. It doesn't matter to me. I sit in 12A and fall asleep.
"Some moments later the woman from 12F is standing in the aisle tapping my shoulder saying she needs her seat. She is holding her ticket and says she has claustrophobia and needs her seat (12B is empty so now 12A looks better than 12F). Well I'm sure she's full of s*** and just wants to enjoy having the middle seat empty but what can I do?
"Technically she does hold that ticket and I'm tired and just want to sleep so I move to 12F. 12E and 11F both mention to me I'm too nice for putting up with this s***. I agree, but f*** it, I want to sleep so bad, so I fall back asleep."
After the man drifted off into his slumber, he was awoken for a second time by the woman offering the original seat back to the passenger again.
The woman claimed that she was "suffering from a panic attack" and had made the decision to exit the plane since the plane hadn't finished board yet.
The man continued: "I nod to 12E saying he should take 12A. He'd have a better seat than the middle seat but he's 'settled' so f*** it I move back over to 12A, 12E ends up sliding over to 12F of course and I fall asleep again.
"Some moments later I'm awoken by a man standing in the aisle saying I'm in his seat. He's holding a freshly printed ticket for 12A as the plane door is still open and he was issued this seat after the claustrophobic woman left the plane. What can I do?
"He doesn't know everything that's happened, it's certainly officially his seat. I'm exhausted and look to 12C and say, 'I'm sorry I'm just going to slide over to 12B, I'm not going to go take my seat back from 12E who is now in my seat 12F'. I fall back to sleep.
Disclosing even more seat drama, the Reddit user added: "Some moments later I'm awoken by the man in 12A who said I can take his seat as he's going to go to the back where there are more open seats.
"The plane has only now just closed the door after sitting at the gate for three hours and is prepping for take off as I settle back into seat 12A once again to fall asleep. WTF is wrong with me, never give up your seat people."
Since sharing the thread online, the man's post has raked in over 140 comments to date - where people rushed to the comment section to comment on their own experiences.
One person wrote: "LOL, wow. I don't mind switching, just never to a middle seat but if I get to my seat and you are already sitting there, then I am not switching at all, you gonna have to get up."
Meanwhile, someone else said: "I have multiple times switched to a middle seat when airlines separated my wife and I. I hate middle seats, but I hate even more missing precious time together."
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