An ‘exhausted’ passenger has been left fuming, after a mum on his plane asked him to move seats.
The man, who was travelling home after a month of backpacking, discovered an empty seat at the end of the row he was in for a friend. Ready for a well deserved mid-flight nap the pair devised a plan, reports the Mirror.
Posting on Reddit, he said: “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.”
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Unfortunately, another passenger had spotted the empty seat. A mother with her baby asked the men to move, after spotting the gap from a few rows forward.
In the post, the passenger said he felt ‘super nauseous’ by the question, and asked if she could wait until a few hours into the flight so that he could get some rest first. He added: “We’d been travelling for a long time and were really rung out.”
The mum initially agreed, however changed her mind around 45 minutes later. He noted: “The woman couldn’t really manage her baby, and asked a flight attendant to hold it so that she could eat.”
She then ‘charged’ over and demanded to use the seat. The man agreed, but was far from impressed.
He continued: “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 including during lights and windows off or sleeping time.”
The mans friend supposedly had little sympathy for his complaints. In fact, his companion insisted he was an ‘a*****e’ for acting so irritated by the woman when she was ‘struggling with the baby’.
He asked Reddit users: “I’d like to get some outside opinions on whether we should have offered the seat and whether I’m an a*****e for being grumpy about the whole thing.”
Unfortunately for him, users failed to come to a consensus. One replied: “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.”
Another 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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