'Grandpa...asks me to switch my aisle seat to a middle seat': Entitled man demands anxious flyer give up their seat so he can sit next to his wife

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    Font - Can I switch seats to sit with my wife? M So this happened a few months ago but I just found this subreddit today and it applies so well!
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    Font - I get kinda anxious when I fly and for that reason like to have an aisle seat and will always get one on my own through the seat map when I book. I always fly basically cross country for reference (minimum 4 hour flights) Anyways, I'm in my aisle seat and the middle seat is still open with a few passengers still boarding the plane. I see a
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    Font - typical airport creature looking dude whose like 65 and some woman also around his age walking together and he motions that's he's in the middle seat. I get up and before I can sit down he goes "do you think you'd be willing to trade seats with my wife so she could sit next to me?" Now I've grown up traveling with my family and my dad travels for work so he always stressed the unspoken rules of airline travel and importance of following them: IE:
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    Font - always have your shoes and belt off at TSA, that sort of thing. So the whole "can i pretty please switch seats because I'm a moron or cheap and didn't want to book them together" pes me off and as I mentioned I already don't like travel. So I shut him down immediately when the words come out of his mouth, I'm just like “I'm sitting in the seat I was assigned."
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    Font - He looks all sad and spends the first 20 mins of the plane ride talking to his wife behind me while I have headphones in. Mind you I never caught what seat his wife was in but I assumed she had the aisle behind me because why the h else would he ask? After a while, I have an epiphany where I'm like you know what, I'll be the
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    Font - extra nice guy today and take my headphones out and get the guys attention. I ask him, "is your wife also in the aisle seat?" and he starts aggressively smiling like a kid who got his hand caught in the cookie jar and goes "no she's in the middle seat." I shook my head in disgust and ignored him the rest of the flight.
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    Font - TLDR: Entitled grandpa doesn't book seats next to wife, ask me to switch my aisle seat to a middle seat on a cross country flight without telling me it's a middle seat. Then laughs in my face when I realize the scam he tried to pull.
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    Font - PopularFunction5202. Another unwritten rule of air travel is: if you're going to ask to someone to switch seats, you need to offer them a seat that is as good as what they have, or something better. If the person has paid to choose their seat, be prepared to offer them what they paid if you expect them to switch. I, too, like the aisle seat and especially if I've had to pay for it, I am not going to give it up unless I'm getting a better offer or getting paid.
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    Font - FranceBrun. Once I paid extra for an upgraded aisle seat on a very long flight. I have an old back injury and needed the extra room. When I got to my seat, a woman with a baby was sitting in my seat. Her husband told me that she needed my seat and she was entitled to it because of the baby. I told him that I didn't pay for a seat in order to subsidize his family's travel and I would be sitting in the seat I paid for. And as he knew they needed the seat, he should have paid for it in advan
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    Font - Years ago I was a reservations agent for an international airline. A passenger called and said she needed to be upgraded from her cheapest ticket to business class because she had a broken toe. I told her that she needed to pay for it. She didn't agree. She wanted a guaranteed free upgrade.
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    Font - Unfortunately she remembered my name and kept calling me and harassing me for the free upgrade. She said she couldn't travel any other way. I finally had to tell her that if she wasn't physically able to fly in the seat she had paid for, as she claimed, I would have to flag her reservation pending medical clearance by the company physician. If he were to find she was unable to fly in the seat she had purchased, she would have no choice but to pay for an upgrade or be denied boarding. That
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    Font - GullibleNews I am never, ever giving up my aisle seat. Airplane seating is such a lottery (who you get sat next to). I hate flying so I pick my seat carefully ahead of time. Always an aisle up the back because seats generally fill from the front -> back so the odds of an empty seat are much higher in the middle up the back.
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    Font - Gigafive No one wants the middle seat. So sick of people who get middle seats and expect others to trade off a better seat so they can sit together.
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    Font - ExcuseInevitable7254. had a woman with a 5 year old ask if i'd switch my window seat for the kid's aisle seat because the kid "likes to look out the window". i looked down at the kid and said very gently that i paid extra for the seat because i like to look out the window too so no, I'm sorry. (i dont fly very often) the kid said "okay!" and didnt even care but the mom gave me a disgusted face and told her kid "sorry that some people arent very nice". what???? i paid for that seat, sorry
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    Font - Roaming_Cow. I paid for my window seat once... and swapped with a kid so they could sit together with their mom, for the window seat right behind me. Same same. Then a family across the aisle asked if I would swap with their daughter in the back middle of the plane. Nope! Same or better, nothing else.

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