Airline passenger, 45, gets applause for refusing to move to a middle seat so a woman can sit next to her husband (and even her HUSBAND was on his side)
A passenger has been fiercely defended after refusing to switch seats with a married couple because the woman did not want to sit in the middle seat.
The anonymous man, 45, took to Reddit to share his travel experience while sitting in a window seat next to a man and a woman. He admitted that he refused to trade sweats with the woman sitting in the middle seat.
His admission reignited a heated conversation about travel etiquette after a frequent flyer criticized an “entitled” airline passenger who demanded she move to his middle seat during an 11-hour flight so he could sit next to his wife.
The frequent flyer wondered if he was wrong in a thread titled: “Am I the hole?,” because he refused to trade places with the woman.
A passenger has been fiercely defended after refusing to switch seats with a married couple because the woman did not want to sit in the middle seat
The anonymous man, 45, took to Reddit to share his travel experience while sitting in a window seat next to a man and woman (stock image)
He wrote: ‘I (m45) sat in the window seat on the plane. A couple got in and the woman sat in the middle seat, with the man facing the aisle.
After settling in, the woman leans toward me with a sweet smile and says, “Would you be so sweet and switch seats with me?” I really can’t fly well in a middle seat.’ So I leaned over and asked if that was her partner, and she said, “Yes, it’s my husband.”
‘I told her I would never want to come between a man and a woman, but I was more than happy to help with the accommodation by switching places with him so that the two of me would sit in the aisle when they we could then find a solution together.’
However, this solution was not good enough for the woman, who claimed that her husband did not want to sit in the middle seat.
She then continued to beg the 45-year-old passenger to swap sweats with her.
“Oh, my husband would never sit in the middle or near a window… so maybe you could do a woman a favor and switch?”
‘I told her I really apologize, but I won’t do it. A moment later I hear her shouting at her husband in another language (which I speak fluently): “The jerk won’t switch seats, so you have to switch with me.”
“He finally switches and leans over with a smile and says his wife switched with him because she has diarrhea and needs the aisle in case she has to run,” he explained.
People flooded the comments section, criticizing the woman for begging another passenger to switch seats, while praising the 45-year-old for putting his foot down
People flooded the comments section, criticizing the woman for begging another passenger to switch seats, while praising the 45-year-old for putting his foot down.
One person said: ‘Not the hole. Villains do this on purpose because they think they can strong-arm you. Sit where you paid and don’t trade unless it’s better for you and you want to.
“I would have answered that old man in his language: ‘Your wife is a bully, enjoy her diarrhea.’
Someone else commented: ‘Ha. My partner and I often sit opposite each other or in front/behind each other because we both prefer aisles. Never a problem to sit apart for a few hours. Not that hole, by the way.’
‘Not the hole. I hope she made it to the bathroom in time,” someone else wrote.
One user said: ‘Not the hole – you are not required to change seats on a plane. You bought the ticket you probably wanted, and they could have done the same.”
‘Not the hole. Very difficult request to ask you to sit between them. No thanks,” someone else wrote.
In the past, a frequent flyer has revealed that she refused to swap her window seat with an ‘entitled’ passenger who wanted to sit next to his wife.
The unnamed woman took to Reddit to share how she refused to move to a middle seat on an 11-hour flight from New York to Cairo, Egypt, so that the man sitting next to her could sit next to his wife.
The anonymous woman shared her story on the social media platform as a way to rant about the man under a thread captioned: ‘TitledPeople,” prompting others online to condemn the man for asking someone else to switch to a lower-quality seat so he could be happy.
The denial comes months after a man sparked a furious debate when he refused to give up his first class seat for his boss, despite using his own credit card points to do so.
In the past, DailyMail.com’s Jaci Stephen even gave her opinion, confessing that she “absolutely refuses” to switch seats, no matter how angry the passenger who wants to switch may get.