There are some airline passengers who do their best to, if not be helpful, at least mind both their manners and their own business.
And then you have the passengers who…don’t.
Someone in the Southwest Airlines subreddit of Reddit wrote a story of what they said happened recently to her and her husband while on a Southwest Airlines flight not long ago. And it just goes to show how self-absorbed and bossy some people can be.
The setup: small bag, big entitlement
The poster, who goes by Suzwella on Reddit, says that they were already on the plane, in row 2. She had the window seat, and her husband was in the middle.
She continued that an older woman soon boarded and claimed the empty aisle seat next to Suzwella’s husband. She had a rollerboard bag with her, but it was smaller than a typical rollerboard.
Suzwella continued that her husband offered to put the older woman’s bag in the overhead, but the woman said she had specifically brought that piece of luggage because it would fit under the seat in front of her.
Suzwella then said, “SPOILER ALERT: It is indeed not fitting. Like, there is no way.”
The older woman continued to try to make the bag fit under the seat in front of her, but nope, it wasn’t going to work. THEN she notices that where Suzwella’s husband is sitting has more room under the seat than where she’s unsuccessfully trying to stick her bag (remember when we warned y’all about that quirk with some planes?).
In a burst of self-centeredness, the older woman then decides that swapping with the husband would be a good idea. And it’s not like she asked – it was more of a command. “Switch with me.”
The husband tells her no, he is sitting next to his wife.
Suzwella continued:
She clarifies: she doesn’t want to switch seats. She just wants to put her bag in front of him, and he put his backpack in front of her. In other words she wants the benefit of an aisle seat, along with probably the only benefit of a middle seat.
The husband was gracious and told her, “Thanks, but no thanks.” He also suggested that she could probably find an open middle seat further back on the plane. And after fiddling with her bag a little more, she did indeed get up and move.
The absolute nerve!
I’ve read a bunch of stories about entitled people before, but I think this b@llsy lady really takes the cake.
Funny thing is, most of the responses on Reddit were more about the differences in under-the-seat space and how they handle them (what kinds of bags they use, etc.), rather than the older woman with the vast sense of entitlement. You can read them here.
What happens when Southwest goes to assigned seating?
Since the under-the-seat differences are an issue on just about all airlines, I’d be naïve to think this sort of situation has never happened before. It probably happens ALLLLL the time. At least, while Southwest still has open seating, there was an opportunity for the woman to find a middle seat with more under-the-seat space. Looking towards the future, when Southwest enforces assigned seating, that won’t even be a possibility, and I guess that entitled older woman will have to put her bag in the overhead. Whomp whomp.
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