He wanted to teach the passenger a lesson (stock) (Image: Getty)
A passenger has been praised for their ‘petty revenge’ against an entitled man who kept digging his knees into the back of their seat.
The man explained how he was travelling on a hour-and-a-half flight – and claims most people keep their seats upright for the journey since it’s so short.
However, he decided to break his own ‘short flight rule’ to teach the passenger behind him a lesson in common courtesy. On , he said: “I could feel a big hard lump moving up and down on the back of my airplane seat.
“Right after the meal service finished and the flight attendant took the tray from the person behind me, I instantly recline my seat all the way back.
“Then a few minutes later I hear them talking to a flight attendant, the flight attendant said since meal service is over I’m free to recline seat.” Pretending to be “nice”, he reclined his seat up a smidge – hoping this would be enough to get his original point acorss without a verbal confrontation.
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However, this wasn’t enough to stop the passenger from digging his knees into the seat once more, prompting the man to take action against him again. He added: “I still feel the hard lump in the back of my seat so I just recline it back down to the maximum and lie my side on the back of the seat and keep pushing down frequently.”
Justifying his actions, he added: “I didn’t recline at the start, I only reclined because they were clearly making my seat uncomfortable first, petty revenge I know.” While some users praised him for ‘taking a stand’, others shared similar experiences with problematic passengers.
One user said: “I had this dude that used the chair as a leverage to get up. He would kick my chair every so often during my 5hr flight. This was after my 12 hour long flight with an additional 4 hour layover. I just wanted peace.” Another user added: ” My experience was that a passenger behind me was shoving their water bottle in the seat back pocket. While he struggled to get into the pocket it felt like I was being groped the whole time.”
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A third user said: ” Try being over six feet tall in economy. Even without reclining your seat my knees are jammed in the back of your seat. Either that or I am encroaching on the space next to me if I spread my legs. If you recline, expect some discomfort as I try and stop my legs cramping up from the extra pressure your seat is now exerting on them.”
One more user added: “I’m only 5’2″, and my knees are only an inch or so away from the seat in front of me. I have so much sympathy for taller folks who get the shitty end of the airlines’ ‘squeeze as many of them in, like sardines, as possible’ philosophy. Anyone with height can’t spread their legs because they’d be infringing on the other passengers limited leg and foot space, but if they put knees forward then then are pressing into the backbone of the person in the seat in front of them. The average height of American men is 5’9″, yet the average seat space is for the height not to exceed 5’6”.