When it comes to travelling on public transport, you need to accept your normal standards of comfort might have to take a hit in the mane of cost and convenience. But one woman refused to accept this simple truth when travelling on a budget airline – prompting a passenger to share his experience onboard a three-hour flight.
Taking to Reddit, he said: “I flew from Denver today, and a woman behind me said that I was rude and impolite for tilting my seat back. It wasn’t even a request; it was more of an accusation.” Given her tone, he decided to keep his seat in the reclined position in an attempt to teach her a lesson.
He added: “She went on and on about how unfair this was, and I reminded her that almost every seat in the airplane could be tilted, and that’s what they were designed to do.
“She wouldn’t back down, and very loudly asked the guy next to her if she was right.
“He very calmly said that this had been an issue with airplane seats ever since airplane travel went commercial.”
With that, she and her seatmate started to discuss how “unfair” air travel is, making sure he could hear every word of their conversation.
“She even pointed out that the man in front of me had not tilted his seat,” he said.
Still refusing to give in, he added: “I watched my movie and ignored her for the rest of the flight, but when we prepared for landing and tilted our seats up straight, she said really loud ‘finally, thank God.’
“I just chuckled. Just another one of life’s funny stories wherein Karen does not get her way.”
Commenting on his post, one user said: “You have the right to put your seat back. But I’m […] not obligated to sit still. I’ll be reaching down into my bag under the seat to get my laptop. I’ll put my table down to work.
“I’ll put my table up when I’m done. I’ll reach into my bag to put my laptop away and get my book. I’ll cross my legs for a while and then uncross them. I may get up to the bathroom once.
“I’m not going to go out of my way to hit your seat, but If you’re so far back that I do, then that’s life.”
Another user added: “This is one of those hot button issues that gets everyone riled up. My steadfast opinion is if it shouldn’t be tilted, then the seats shouldn’t be [tiltable].”
A third user said: “I think we all need to point a finger at the airlines for cramming us in. We used to all have room to recline without severely impacting others but no more. Got to think of the shareholders and all.”
One more user added: “Years gone by the seats had a little more spacing between then. Nowadays they don’t, and the seats really shouldn’t have that function anymore.”
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