'I politely told her [no]… She kept yelling:' Karen mom thinks son is entitled to window seat during flight, demands unwilling woman switches with her, flight attendants put her in her place

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    "She continued yelling that she NEEDED the seat..." 30,000 B
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    AITA for not giving up my plane seat? Not the hole I 23 (f) recently had to fly across the Country to attend my sister's wedding.
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    At the Airport there was a mom (around 40) with her little son (6 or 7) and the whole time she was demanding things from the airport staff. When we boarded the plane i went straight to my seat which was a middle seat, sat down and took out my earphones, when the mother and the son arrived. They had the
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    window seat and the aisle seat. Immediately, the woman demanded that she MUST sit next to her son and i MUST sit at the aisle so she could sit next to him. I dont like sitting in the aisle seat very much so i told her (friendly) that i dont really like giving up my seat as i dont like sitting there and she then started to yell that it is her right to sit next to her son. I
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    politely told her that i would be willing to change seats with her son (who had the window seat) but she continued yelling that she NEEDED the seat and that she wont accept that her son has to give up his seat as he is a child and deserves the window seat. In the end a Stewardess came and i got to sit in my original seat.
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    The mom kept 'accidentally' kicking me the whole flight and made her son annoy me on purpose so i might give up my seat. When i went to the toilet i thought it was finally over as she might have accepted it but when
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    i came back she was in my seat, and my jacket and my bag which i left there were thrown into the aisle. I called a Stewardess and they made her get back into her own seat.
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    Aita for not giving in and just let her sit next to her son instead of politely declining and keep sitting on my seat?
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    kaikaradk 19 hr. ago Parta ipant [1] Honestly, we need more info on why you prefer the middle seat. You handled this situation with a lot of grace. Gave the woman an option and you let the flight attendants do their job.
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    Smart-Jellyfish1111 OP · 19 hr. ago Well i just dont like to sit at the aisle seat and it was a row of three seats. The only empty seat was the middle seat so i booked it
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    balletrina 19 hr. ago ● Please put this in your post. This gives way more context and makes her even more the AH. She booked the window and the aisle trying to get an entire row to herself. SHE is 100% the reason her and her child are separated. If she wanted to be next to him, she should have booked an aisle and the middle or the window and the middle.
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    C-romero80 13 hr. ago Any time my mom and I have flown with my kids we book it so we each have one with us. I wouldn't leave it to chance either
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    dalaigh93 7 hr. ago Yeah, last time I was stuck in a middle seat I'd have accepted the aisle or window seat in a heartbeat. It's the first time that I hear about someone with OP's preference, not that that makes them invalid.
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    If you want a specific seat you book it, and while you can ask politely to switch, you have to accept if the other person doesn't accept. No one is entitled to a seat they didn't book
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    De-railled 15 hr. ago If your scheming backfires, you don't take it out on an innocent person. They aren't obligated to change seats just because your "plans" didn't work out.
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    Seemedwiseonce 16 hr. ago I book this way when traveling as a couple or a mother and child. If the middle seat gets booked, I ask the person what their preference is as to aisle or window - I have never had someone choose the middle seat. That being said, OP is definitely NTA.
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    Jerseygirl2468 · 16 hr. ago hole Aficionado [10] Absolutely. And she's very easily could've asked the flight attendants to see if there was another row she could move to, rather than harassing OP the entire time
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    Crazydogfostermom 16 hr. ago Next time you encounter someone who keeps accidentally kicking you, I would accidentally kick them right back. And in this particular situation, I would accidentally elbow her son a few times too.
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    I was once seated next to a woman who kept elbowing me on the flight, she finally stopped when I elbowed her really hard.
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    mbsyust 14 hr. ago Part ipant [1] ● I would just be very helpful and teach the kid a lot of words their mother did not want them to know.
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    LEP627 13 hr. ago I'd have been thrilled to get the aisle seat, but what's important is how you felt. I'm so sick of entitled people thinking they are owed to someone else's seat. NTA.

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