He continued:
Not giving up, I then showed her my boarding pass, pointing at the printed seat number. She then mouthed “ohhhh” as if she just understood what I’ve been saying all along. She then tucked in her knees half an inch into the seat and gestured for me to squeeze past.
I raised my voice and said out loud that “I’m not the one getting in, you are!” She flinched and slid to the window seat without a word. The guy who was waiting behind me in the aisle gave me a thumbs up as he passed by.
I thought that was that, but she was apparently still salty and wanted satisfaction. Just after takeoff, to my shock, I felt her tapping on my shoulder, saying she was open to switching seats with me “If I wanted.” I politely declined, albeit with an almost amused look in my face.
Later, I was casually conversing with my colleagues seated across from me in their aisle seats. She tapped on my shoulders again and said that her offer extended to “your friends”. I gave a light chuckle and said, “Sure.” I knew what she was getting at along with her condescension; that she was “someone in the industry”.
She later circled back on this, whether if I’d asked my colleagues about their seat yet, to which I replied in the negative. She asked “If I could please ask them” to which I’d always reply in the positive, “Sure” in a lighthearted manner. This exact exchange occurred between us not once, not twice, but thrice in the course of a 6-hour flight.
To this day, I’ve never come across her professionally, so I’m not sure what exactly she was trying to achieve there.
The comments quickly filled up with other Redditors’ opinions on the matter and their similar experiences:
- In today’s world, raising your voice on a plane can be enough to turn an attendant against you — and they can and will have you escorted off the plane, with full legal authority to do so. They can even involve the police if you resist or argue.
I’ve had plenty of idiots try to claim my aisle seat. I don’t engage — I make one attempt to tell them they’re in my seat. If there’s any pushback, I immediately hit the call button or motion for the attendant.
Then I calmly but firmly state that the interloper is in the wrong seat and won’t move. They always make them move. © parodytx / Reddit - As a young adult, I was boarding an international flight, and it was business class. A man was sitting in my seat (I’m female), so I told him he was in the wrong seat. He got all upset and said, “My company booked me an aisle seat with my coworker, and you’ll have to sit in the middle.”
Nope. I’d been flying internationally alone since I was 11. I wasn’t just going to give up my seat.
The cabin crew stepped in and told him he needed to move to the middle seat. He flat-out refused and actually said, “Do you know who I am and what I do?” Nope—and we didn’t care. I got a first-class seat. He got fired.
When I got home and told my parents the story, they were annoyed—because we had to host dinner for the new employees coming in from abroad. Guess who showed up? Yup. The same guy. Now the lowest-ranking employee on the team. © jatg96 / Reddit - It didn’t happen to me, but a co-worker ran into a passenger that wouldn’t move. The stewardess went to talk to the captain and came back and told the unruly passenger she had been upgraded to first class and should see the gate agent to get a new boarding assignment. My co-worker was a bit annoyed that the unruly passenger got an upgrade. The stewardess later told him that the gate agent refused to let her re-board the plane. © JaiBoltage / Reddit
- Not a plane, but in a concert venue two nights ago. We didn’t have stage seats, but we were one level up and fairly close. Everyone in our section had a great view of the stage, and the only advantage of our seats (three of us) was that we were right next to the aisle, so it was easy to get in and out for the bar, bathroom, etc.
This woman and her husband took their mid-row seats from the other end of the row, and about 15 minutes later, she stood up and inched her way toward us, claiming we were “in her seat.” I looked her square in the eye, held up my phone with my ticket (because I saw her coming with the con game), and said, “No. No, we’re not.” She backed down immediately and returned to her seat, trying to laugh it off. © Fun-Jelly6976 / Reddit
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