Let’s face it – the middle seat on a plane is the absolute pits and having to put up with fellow passengers making it even worse is just not right.
our own Shelly Horton recently smoked about how she was “so squished” in the middle seat on a flight that she called for a “refresh on air travel etiquette”.
And now another Aussie traveler has shared their frustration at a “ballsy” plane act she experienced on a flight to Melbourne.
“My Syd to Mel flight just now. She’s in the aisle seat,” the woman wrote in a post on Redditsharing a photo showing herself sitting in the dreaded middle seat.
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“She pushed my arm off the armrest and plopped her feet in my space. The middle seat already sucks enough,” she added.
The image was flooded with hundreds of comments, including some people suggesting a host of passive aggressive solutions.
“Say you’re going to the toilet, she will uncross her legs, stick both legs on that side to block her,” one person said – this one received plenty of praise from fellow Redditors.
“Window gets an armrest and a wall. Middle gets two armrests. Aisle gets an armrest and a little bit of extra leg. We’re not animals! We live in a society,” another person fumed.
A few pointed out that there was no reason for the anger, as she should have just asked the traveler to move her feet.
To which the original poster responded: “I politely asked her to move her leg and she did, I also got my armrest back. I just thought it was awfully ballsy of her to push my arm off and put her foot in my space in the first place.”
Not enough legroom
It comes as almost on the same day, another traveler from the US shared a photo of someone’s feet encroaching on her space on another flight.
“On my flight. Can you like not?” the woman, from Baltimore, posted alongside another photo on Reddit.
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Despite many people agreeing that she had every right to step on the person’s feet, many also pointed out how many people with long legs struggle on flights.
“There is no fricking legroom on plans anymore. If you just put your feet in front of you where they should go, you would not even notice,” one person commented.
The woman however did hit back saying that if her “6 foot 4 inches tall husband managed to do it without annoying other people” then this person could too.
“I actually started very lightly knocking the person’s feet with mine. Like a very gentle ‘oops, I’m not sure what’s below my feet’ kind of way,” she added.
“Just mildly frustrating that it kept happening like every 15 minutes throughout the flight.”
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