A fuming plane passenger has spoken out after she had a heated row with a mum over a seat. Most people will agree that sitting in the middle seat on a plane is drawing the short straw as you can be cramped between two people you may not know.
Sometimes you might have to pay to change from a middle seat, so you might end up just sucking it up, as reported by The Mirror. But one woman learned her lesson after feeling "a little claustrophobic" in the middle seat, so she decided to book herself a window seat to prevent the uncomfortableness she felt on the other flight.
When she boarded the plane, she was confused when she noticed "a lady and her child" sitting in her aisle. She took to Reddit to vent: "The lady is in the middle and the child (maybe three or four?) is in my seat. I didn't board late - I was one of the early groups, so she just preemptively took the window. You have to pay extra for that.
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"I walked up and very politely tell her it was my seat. I never, not once, raised my voice or lost my temper."
The woman did not take kindly to it, however, replying: "Are you SERIOUS?" when she was asked to move, later telling her she didn't have to "be such a *****".
The woman then refused to sit next to the original poster, saying: "I'm NOT sitting next to you if you're a *****", and then escalated things by getting the flight attendant, stating she "isn't sitting next to a stupid *****."
She continued: "The poor flight attendant comes over and gives me an embarrassed look, and tells her she needs to sit down in the correct seat and wait to see if there are no-shows.
"The woman then proceeds to tell everyone around what a ***** I am, etc, earning more embarrassed looks from other passengers.
"At the end of the day, I got my seat, wasn't claustrophobic, and she looked like an ***, but what is the deal with parents like that? I have three boys and I would never, ever expect people to give up seats for us. Certainly, not ones they paid extra for."
In the comments, people were baffled by the entitled mum, and they were left wondering why she thought she could take a seat someone had paid extra for. One wrote: "They're hoping that you'll 'ThInK oF tHe ChIlDrEn' and just give up your window seat so that the little darling can be entertained by something other than mum. Good for you for sticking up for yourself. If more of us did this, perhaps those people would stop being so entitled."
"She should have been booted off the plane", another fumed.
Someone else said: "I'm a mum too, and I would never have thought of demanding my kid's preferred seat. The only time I asked someone if it was ok to switch seats was when my son, then six, was seated across the aisle from me.
"I offered my aisle seat to the guy squished in the middle seat. He gladly switched."
