Entitled kid kicks back of passenger's seat on red-eye flight, cue petty payback: 'Have a nice flight!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 21, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Red-eye flights can be brutal, especially if you have a kid kicking the back of your seat and making your experience all the more difficult. 

When you're getting on a long flight and hoping for at least a good hour of sleep, the likelihood of a smooth, relaxing experience all comes down to your immediate surroundings. Are you stuck in the middle of two inconsiderate strangers? Are you next to a strange and overly talkative person? Is there a screaming child? 

Here, we have a passenger who was, at the very least, lucky enough to have a protective father. He stood up for his daughter after the annoying kid behind her kept incessantly kicking her seat. Now, this kid was about eight or nine years old. In other words, he was old enough to know better, and his mother (who was sitting right next to him) should have done more to stop him from continuing to be a nuisance. 

Keep scrolling below to see how the Redditor's Dad stepped in to teach him a lesson. For more stories like this, check out this list of odd circumstances that led to employees getting fired.

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    "Son keeps kicking the back of my seat while in a flight"
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    Obligatory: sorry for formatting I'm on mobile This was a few years ago, when my dad and I(14f) were on a flight back home from India. Behind us there was a family of three, with their son behind me, and the mum behind my dad.
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    It was a night time flight and everyone was beat. It was also a small, budget- airlines with not much leg room. About 10 minutes into the flight, the kid
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    behind me starts kicking my seat. To be clear, he wasn't very little, maybe 9 or 10. I let my dad know and he politely asks him to stop,
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    and he does.....for about 10 seconds. We tell him again ( more firmly this time), but no luck.
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    This is where the revenge starts. My dad reclines his seat as much as he can and when they ask him to put it up he doesn't. They call the flight attendant(FA) and the dad (JD) talks to him.
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    JD: this man put his seat down, and my wife is uncomfortable. FA (while talking to my dad): would you like to keep it down? My dad: yes please
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    FA: well then, he can if he wants to. That's not his problem. Have a nice flight He walks away with the dad left spluttering and cursing under his breath. Fun times!
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    Edit: sorry, I didn't give proper closure disappointing a lot of you. The parents realised what happened and after a few harsh whispers, got the kid
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    to stop kicking. But that didn't stop them from glaring at both me, my dad and the flight attendant that walked by. My dad did keep the seat down for another hour, but got up once he was sure those parents learnt their lesson.
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    Dongar00. He should have waited till they had drinks (hopefully cold) then reclined rapidly oops sorry!
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    insertfunnyname 06 OP. They didn't have any drink stands becuase is the flight was at 11pm but if there was we would have done it
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    Knuffel_beertje . Did the attendance witness the chair kicking?
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    insertfunnyname06 OP. Sadly not. The Idad actually clicked the attendant summoning button in order to tell him what happened
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    therealdougiep . So what happened with the kid, did he stop kicking? This is very unsatisfying indeed. So you still had kicks and their mom is uncomfortable and your dad is reclining and snoozy? Naw
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    insertfunnyname06 ОР OP. I'm really sorry about the lack of closure. I put an edit at the bottom of the post
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    NeatNefariousness1. Hahaha. Your dad get's an A+ in petty revenge. Some people can't be reached unless they are directly impacted. As long as the kid was kicking someone else's seat, they couldn't be bothered. People like these and the little SC they are raising should be dropped off on their own deserted island.
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