RedSox68
Retired 2021 -- All the Time to Travel Now!
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2009
I was flying home from Fort Lauderdale Sunday evening when a woman demanded that I move from my aisle seat so she could sit next to her kid who would be sitting in the middle seat. This was after SnoToriousBIG 2016, so every single flight was full.
I don't give a ratatouille if you want to sit with your kids. I paid for this aisle seat assignment and you wanted to take your chances at the airport! You can keep trying the passive aggressive "well he gets motion sickness." I have a kid and had dogs and witnessed one whelp puppies twice. I can handle it. Unless you want to pay me five times what I paid for this seat, keep moving on! The flight attendant made her go to her seat several rows back!
The only time I have ever given up my seat and in first no less was for someone in uniform. Their willingness to die for their country trumps someone who doesn't want to pay for their seat every day of the year!
Similar situation, but not with a kid. We were flying to Barcelona and my DH and I were in the row behind my daughter, who had the window seat in front of us. She was sitting next to a young man. As we waited for take off, we noticed he kept leaning over and saying things to my daughter and she was getting visibly upset. I finally asked what was going on and it turns out he was trying to pressure her into moving to the back of the plane so his wife could sit next to him. I finally leaned forward and said loudly in the young man's ear that our young daughter was NOT giving up her seat for his wife and if he wanted to sit with his wife, he should have paid for assigned seats like we did! To "get even", he proceeded to put his seat back during take off, to which I had to report him to the steward. In the end, he went back to his parents to whine about the situation and his father told him to grow up and act his age and sit down. My DH switched with my daughter while he was out of his seat, and he was so miserable when he returned that he ended up switching his seat with his sister. THEN we had a peaceful flight. Funny thing, when we landed, he and his whole family quickly exited the plane, leaving his wife in the back to get off alone!
So I have no problem with you sticking to your desire to keep your seat. I wonder if she tried to get someone in her row to switch so she could move her kid back with her?