A man has shared how he got the last laugh after an ‘entitled’ woman blasted him for ‘stealing’ her plane seat onboard a Delta flight – but it turns out the airline made a mistake
A man has slammed the ‘entitled’ woman who screamed at him for ‘stealing’ her plane seat onboard a Delta flight. But, sharing his story he explained how he got the last laugh.
The stand-off happened on board a flight to Alabama and ended up with a round of musical chairs as the airline tried to figure out who the seat belonged to. The 27-year-old claims the airline accidentally double-booked their seats, meaning they were both assigned to the same chair on the flight.
He said on Reddit: “I was on a Delta flight, as I normally am to go back home to Alabama. I go through the motions and find my proper seat. I put my headphones on and start listening to a podcast when a woman around my age comes up and says, “You’re in my seat.”
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“I tell her that I’m in my assigned seat and show her my boarding pass in the app on my phone. I think she must have made a mistake, but she showed me her paper boarding pass. She was, in fact, also assigned to this seat! She starts getting real snippy with me, telling me I need to get out of her seat.”
After trying to explain the situation to her, he realised he wasn’t getting through to her, as she kept on complaining about him ‘stealing’ her seat. He added: “I explain that we both were assigned to this seat and we need to get it sorted out, but she keeps saying stuff like I had a ‘good try at stealing her aisle seat.’ Now I’m kinda ****ed off, but I realize she must be stupid and can’t understand the situation, so it’s okay.
“She calls over a flight attendant and says I’m refusing to get out of her seat (the conversation had barely even started, I never said I wouldn’t move, just that we needed to get it sorted out). Flight attendant told me to move to another seat, which was fine. I’ll get it sorted after complying with the flight attendant’s instructions.”
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Following this, the woman sits down in the seat and starts badmouthing him for everyone to hear. Now sitting only five rows up, he could hear almost everything she was saying and believed her reaction was over-the-top. He said: “She’s chastising me across the rows and the aisle. I get that she’s stupid, but she doesn’t have to be mean about it. I am now very mildly infuriated.”
But then, he says the flight attendant realised the issues – and even better for him, he was assigned to it first. He added: “He goes to whisper to some other flight attendants. He comes back to the woman and tells her she has to move! I heard him try to explain it to her several times before she finally got up. She went from making some sort of comment every few seconds to not saying a word, and I was able to enjoy my Stuff You Should Know podcast in peace.”
Commenting on his post, one user said: “Started mildly infuriating, ended completely satisfying.” Another user added: “In my experience, I’ve found you sometimes get smart people who are mean, and that’s frustrating. You also get stupid people who are not mean, which is kind of endearing.
“But when you get people that are both stupid and mean… that’s a whole other level of human being.” A third user said: “When I walked past her, I would have calmly told her that I didn’t appreciate her trying to steal my seat and giving her my most haughty look.”
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