Sisters Cause Tension on Plane After Booking Aisle and Window Seat
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NEED TO KNOW
- A woman and her sister booked the window and aisle seats on a plane, with a stranger seated between them
- When they passed something to each other, the woman in the middle asked if they were going to be “rude” the whole flight
- One of the sisters took to Reddit to ask if she was missing anything
Traveling can raise tempers for anyone, especially when having to share close quarters with a stranger.
In a recent Reddit post, one woman explained that she and her sister recently went on a trip. While one of the sisters booked a window seat on the plane, the other booked the aisle seat in the same row.
“When we sat down, there was someone in the middle seat. She asked if we wanted to change seats and we politely declined,” the user writes.
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When they got settled into their seats, the sisters passed a snack bag between them, prompting the stranger to ask, “Are you two going to be rude and pass things to each other the whole flight?”
“I politely explained that I asked my sister to hold one thing. When I was settled and buckled in, I would ask for it back. Otherwise, my sister planned to sleep and I would watch my iPad,” the poster explained to the woman.
Still, the poster says the woman “continued raising her voice saying how rude [they] were” during the flight.
“I think the fact that we declined to moved really upset her,” she writes. “She continued to complain and even held my sister up by letting a few extra rows go first.”
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So, the woman turned to Reddit for an outside perspective to see if they were “missing something” in relation to the woman’s behavior.
While people in the comments section didn’t make excuses for the woman in the middle seat, a few could understand where she was coming from.
“I mean, it would be extremely annoying to sit in the middle and have people talk and pass stuff over the top of you constantly,” one person wrote. “Once or here and there is totally fine. She probably thought you were going to keep doing it and snapped prematurely. Once you explained and didn’t keep bugging her it’s completely on her and continuing to be rude was not warranted. Some people are just grouchy.”
“She was cranky,” another person put bluntly.
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