An "exhausted" plane passenger has told of his anger after a mum disrupted his plans to enjoy a mid-flight nap. The man was flying home after a month spent backpacking with his friend when the pals discovered an empty seat at the end of their row on the plane.
Keen to get some shut-eye after an early start to catch their connecting flight, the pair devised a plan. "We'd move and make the middle seat the spare and take turns lying down or stretch out a bit further and sleep back to back," the man later explained in a post to Reddit.
But a fellow passenger had another idea for the seat. Seated a few rows forward, a mum travelling with her baby had spotted the gap. She hoped her seat neighbour would move to the spot so she could have plenty of room for her baby, reports the Mirror.
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"Visibly disappointed", the male passenger - who felt "super nauseous" by this point - asked if she could wait until a few hours into the six-hour flight so he and his friend could get some rest first. "We'd been travelling for a long time and were really rung out," he explained - and the mum initially agreed.
But after "45 minutes or less", she changed her mind. The mum "charged" over and demanded that they give up the seat.
Irritated, the male passenger agreed - but he was far from impressed. He also complained about the baby's noisy toys.
He said in the post: "The baby was very loud, always whining and crying but that's nothing you can blame a baby for. She then gave the baby a rattle toy which was constantly being shaken and really loud, on top of the whining and crying.
"The mum also shook the rattle toy for the baby to try to get it to quiet down (didn't work) making additional noise. This wasn't once or twice but throughout most of the flight," he wrote.
But his fellow flyer had little sympathy for the passenger's complaint. In fact, his companion insisted he was an "[a**e] for acting so irritated by this woman, when she was struggling with the baby" - at which point he then turned to Reddit for advice.
"I'd like to get some outside opinions on whether we should just have offered the seat and whether I'm an [a**e] for being grumpy about the whole thing," the man concluded. Commenters struggled to come to a consensus, though.
"Neither one of you were entitled to the seat you didn't pay for. I don't see the problem," read one reply.
But another said: "If she wanted a seat for her baby she could have bought one. And it's OK to be annoyed by a loud baby and vent to your friend about it later. Accosting the mother about the noise would have been rude, but being irritable about it is normal."
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