An 'exhausted' plane passenger has been left fuming after a mum disrupted his plans to enjoy a mid-flight nap by making him move seats.
The man was travelling home after a month spent backpacking with his friend, when the pals discovered an empty seat at the end of their row.
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," as the man later explained in a post to Reddit.
Unfortunately, a fellow passenger had another idea for the seat, which they soon found out when a mum travelling with her baby asked them to move. Seated a few rows forward, she'd spotted the gap, and she hoped her seat neighbour would move to the spot so she could have a 'full seat for her baby'.
'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.
However, after '45 minutes or less' she changed her mind. Having struggled to enjoy her onboard snack - 'the woman couldn't really manage her baby, and asked a flight attendant to hold it so that she could eat' - the mum 'charged' over and demanded to use to seat.
Irritated, the male passenger agreed, but he was far from impressed. He also complained about the baby's noisy toys, later 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 incl. during lights+windows off/sleeping time," he wrote.
But his fellow flyer had little sympathy for the passenger's complaint when he later moaned about the mum to his friend. 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.
Unfortunately, commenters struggled to come to a consensus.
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"Neither one of you were entitled to the seat you didn't pay for. Seems like you both shared it. I don't see the problem," read one reply.
Someone else pointed out: "Nobody was entitled to the seat. The difference between OP and the mother was that OP was willing to compromise by sharing the time the seat was used. The mother demanded use of the seat for most of the flight."
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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