'Entitled woman stole plane seat I paid extra for but I taught her a lesson'
A man has shared how he 'won' a row against an entitled plane passenger who tried to steal his seat on a three-and-a-half hour flight
A man has slammed an 'entitled' passenger who stole his pre-booked seat to improve her comfort on a budget airline.
He explained how he was flying from Santorini to Paris with his wife and made sure to book the exit row for the extra leg room it provides.
Taking to Reddit, he said: "we had paid extra for the exit row seats which come with additional leg room. Also allowed for earlier group boarding but wifey was in the toilet when boarding started so we ended up boarding a bit later... no big deal I thought since we had reserved seats. When we boarded we see a lady in my exit row aisle seat. Of course a fellow American.
"I informed her she was in my seat and she (without even looking up, mind you) asked if we couldn’t just sit in the exit row across the aisle which (at the moment) was empty. I of course politely but firmly told her no."
He says the plane was about 75% boarded at this point - and their seat discussion was holding up other passengers from taking their places before take-off.
"I moved over to let other passengers pass by and she still hasn’t gotten up." Annoyed, he lost his patience and bluntly told her: "Get out of my seat or I’ll have the flight attendant do it".
He added: "I said it loud enough to startle her and she finally looks up sheepishly and says, 'Fine but you don’t need to be rude!' And a huge huffy puffy.
"I quickly responded with, 'I wasn’t until you decided to be an entitled a***hole' as she walked... To the second to last row on the plane! And yes the plane was 95% full in the end, including all exit row seats."
Commenting on their experience, one user said: "Handled perfectly. You were polite enough to give her a chance to leave your seat but didn't take crap when she refuses to. Some people need a bit more of, errr, motivation to comply."
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Another user added: "Not enough people are being called out for real. They think that people just want to 'avoid trouble' so they let them get away with it. This is why we are in the political mess we are in.
"The people at the top are counting on the general population to just let them get away with lowering their own taxes and letting us all pay a little more and receive less in services. Good for you in fighting for sanity in the world."
A third user said: "It's way past time we started matching attitudes with these entitled idiots. You weren't rude, you were asserting dominance."
One more user added: "Only had someone in my seat one time like this and I just parked myself in the aisle waiting for them to move holding up the entire boarding process.
"When the flight attendant come over and asked what the issue was I just told them to ask the person in my seat. Magically they were so confused and didn’t realise that wasn’t their seat."