07-15-2024
06:24 AM
Long story short - The man sitting behind me (aisle seat) prevented the recline of both my seat and the one next to me (my daughter's seat). He had one knee firmly placed against the back of my seat and his other knee against my daughter's seat.
Full story: I have back problems and really wanted to recline as it takes weight off of my spine. When I tried to recline (slowly), he shouted at me that I was crushing his knees. He then forcefully pushed my seat back into the upright position (even pushing it even more forward than the original position). When I mentioned that I had back problems he did not seem to care. FWIW, the guy in front of me reclined too (because that is apparently his god given right). I was going to switch seats with my daughter (middle seat) so I could recline and relieve my back pain, but she was not able to recline either. When I peeked back, I saw that this guy was leaned far forward with each one of his knees pushed up against each of our seats. (The guy had his young son next to him in center seat). I thought about calling the flight attendant to help us resolve this, but really did not want to make a whole scene out of it. I also was not sure what the official policy is for this kind of dispute and honestly, I just wanted to get home. To make matters worse, the guy had his young daughter up in our row (window seat) completely unsupervised and this girl made a point to poke at my daughter and constantly and intentionally invade her space (despite my daughter asking her repeatedly to stop poking at her). I was terrified of making the situation worse by asking the guy behind me to control his daughter. Another side note - twice the flight attendant yelled at me to control the guy's daughter (probably thinking I was the girl's mother (her mother was in the window seat behind her - also not controlling this kid)). I can't help but think this whole situation would have not happened if my 6'2" husband was present. I seem to run into these kind of situations whenever he is not around - which is frustrating as women should be able to travel without encountering this borderline bullying behavior. Thoughts?
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