I was teased on a flight for disrupting a couple’s scheme to have more space: ‘Monster behavior’

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‘Instantly rude’

A young woman recently found herself unwittingly in the middle of a couple who attempted this trick, and according to her Reddit post, they weren’t too thrilled about it.

“I always pay extra and choose my seat in advance when I travel,” she wrote in the Straight People thread.

However, due to a medical emergency on another plane, extra people from that flight were placed on her flight, so she was given another seat to accommodate the extra passengers.

“When I got to my row, a man and a woman were chatting and sharing a snack. It was clear that they were together. I told the man I was in the middle and he got up to let me in,” she explained.

“I asked them if they would prefer to sit together… I said I’m totally fine with that… they can choose the seats. But the woman immediately reacted rudely to this. She said something like, ‘You shouldn’t be sitting here anyway.’ I explained the situation (though I’m sure everyone on the plane was aware of it, as there had been announcements and reshuffles).

“I offered to show him my new ticket as well. She put her hand on my ticket and made a disgusting sound. I asked her again if they wanted to sit together, but she didn’t answer me. Her partner said, ‘It’s okay,’ and seemed the kinder of the two. I sit. He made some small talk about how the plane has to be so complete blah blah.”

The woman then interrupted their conversation a little later and said, “Did you use one of those third-party websites to book your flight? It’s very frustrating when people take it easy for others to do.”

But the OP told her that she booked direct and due to the situation, she could no longer be seated in the other selected seat.

“I was so done with her attitude, I put my headphones on and tried to do my own thing,” the woman said. “But this woman, for the remaining four hours, continued to approach me, eavesdrop on her partner and try to talk to him in a way that was very intrusive for me to get stuck between them.

“I could tell her partner was also trying to engage her less so that she would hopefully stop, but she didn’t and the whole time, she acted like I was the problem in this scenario.”

“I think they tried to pull that tactic where they don’t sit together on purpose, leaving the middle seat empty, hoping no one will sit between them. But on full flights (which most are), it doesn’t work. And yet, it’s not the other person’s fault.”

“Like a little kid having a tantrum”

Over 600 people weighed in on the woman’s story, condemning the woman for her “monstrous” behavior.

“You nailed it in your last paragraph. She was disappointed and decided to take it away from you,” he wrote in the main comment.

“Like a little kid having a tantrum,” someone else noted.

And this woman shared: “As someone who has absolutely tried the same tactic, I am so sorry that the other person was a whore. Whenever me and my partner do this, we always let the person who joins know and ask them if he would like the window seat (so we sit together).

“Sounds exactly like the middle seat. I really don’t understand why they preferred to annoy themselves (and you) and not just exchange with you. Weird hill to die on,” another Redditor commented.

And someone else added, “They didn’t want to trade because they wanted to tell the OP that her appearance ruined their goal of having the entire row for their personal comfort.”