‘First class Karen‘ goes haywire when other passengers share the overhead bin above her seat, fellow traveler amusingly retaliates with one sentence

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 17, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Sometimes, you gotta pay a little extra for a first-class airplane ticket if you want to avoid your typical economy seat struggles.

But, what comes with first-class living isn't for the weak. You get people with a lot of money, looking to complain about what they spent their money on. Not every passenger is like this, but some unlucky travelers might come across one or two of these kinds of individuals in their lives. The type of passenger who thinks the world revolves around them because they have some extra dough; the "Most Important Person On The Plane", coined by the original poster (OP) of this story.

The OP tells a tale of a Karen who couldn't believe that even first-class riders must share. Her overhead bin was being used by another passenger, likely because of a lack of space. Karen immediately starts getting upset (despite there being remaining overhead space in first class) and making it everyone else's problem. She assumes that she is the only person on the plane who spent an arm and a leg to ride in style, but the OP wasn't having it. Since nobody was brave enough to make Karen uncomfortable, OP takes matters into their own hands and owns her in one sentence.

Scroll to read the entire story, as OP writes creatively for an amusing effect.

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    CRJ-900 first class Karen is The Most Important Person On The Plane who "paid hundreds of dollars more than anybody else"
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    I flew DTW-YYZ today on a non- atmosphere 900. I was about the 8th out of 12 first class passengers to board, so I had to put my rollaboard in about row 6. This wasn't a big deal because I fly 900s a lot and was expecting this since I was the 8th person on board.
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    (I saw another first class passenger put both her rollaboard and backpack in overhead, but I didn't say anything and didn't care because my rollaboard wasn't too far away in row 6. But shhh...don't tell r/delta I let this slide :-) )
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    I had an aisle seat and the next few zones were boarding like normal. The flight attendant took first class drink orders like normal. It was mid-80s and sunny in DTW in mid-September. Life was great. I was living the dream.
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    Then suddenly, The Most Important Person On The Plane came aboard. She was about the 50th person to board and probably boarded with zone 6. The first indication she was The Most Important Person On The Plane was when she wildly started turning her torso left and
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    right in the first class aisle before reaching her 3A seat as she looked at the full overhead bins. As The Most Important Person On The Plane, she knew she was entitled to carelessly knock people in the head with her overstuffed backpack (including me in 2C). But she was just getting started.
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane started loudly asking "WHOSE BAGS ARE THESE? THESE OVERHEAD SPOTS ARE FOR FIRST CLASS! PEOPLE IN THE BACK: GET YOUR BAGS OUT OF THESE SPOTS!!!"
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    Math was apparently not her strongest subject in school because there are 12 first class seats on a 900 (1-2 configuration with 4 rows) but there is only overhead space for 6-8 rollaboards in first class. Only the starboard side overhead bins can accommodate rollaboards. The
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    port side overhead bins are precisely engineered to only accommodate individual, unwrapped Cheerios. First class late-comers have to go back a few rows like I had to.
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    In between getting slugged in the face by her backpack Mike Tyson, I said "There is some space a few rows back. I had to do the same."
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane was not having any of my advice. She yelled "I PAID HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE TO HAVE OVERHEAD SPACE AT MY SEAT!"
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane turned some of the first class rollaboards 90 degrees sideways like we put them in overhead on non-regionals. But on non-atmosphere 900s, obviously this doesn't allow the bin to close. Another person in
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    first class told The Most Important Person On The Plane "that's not going to work," but The Most Important Person On The Plane just huffed back at her, left the bag sideways, and left the bin door open.
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane then sat down in her seat and left her rollaboard in the aisle. As The Most Important Person On The Plane, she was entitled to do this. She then shouted "FLIGHT ATTENDANT, I NEED HELP. HELP!!!! HELP!!!!"
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    Others were still trying to board behind The Most Important Person On The Plane, so her bag in the aisle was holding up everybody, including the flight attendant who was trying to reach her to calm her down.
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    Eventually, the flight attendant squeezed by the 3-4 other people in the aisle and told The Most Important Person On The Plane "there is some space a few rows back."
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane was not having any of that. Again, she screamed "I PAID HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS MORE TO HAVE OVERHEAD AT MY SEAT!!!"
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    The flight attendant relented and said "I'll stow your rollaboard in the closet. You can pick it up on your way out after we land." Finally, The Most Important Person On The Plane seemed appeased. For the entire flight, she was quiet. I assume she was either passed out drunk,
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    extremely hungover from binging on an overseas flight and trying to sleep it off, or from missing a dose of medication. Or so I thought... We landed at YYZ and got to the gate 20 minutes early. Score. The "unbuckle seat belt" ding went off.
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    I waited 2 seconds and saw nobody else stood up behind me. Knowing my bag was a few rows behind me, I sprung up, moved like the wind from 2C to 6C to grab my rollaboard, and started moving back to 2C in front of The Most Important Person On The Plane. This took all of 5 seconds. Thank you, inner Bruce Lee.
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    (Selfishly, I wanted to make sure I beat everybody else on my plane to immigration. This saves a few minutes in line.) The Most Important Person On The Plane stuck her arm out and made contact with my rollaboard. Out of politeness, I stopped.
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane yelled "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? IN A HURRY TO GET OFF THE PLANE BEFORE US FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS?" Me: "I'm just going back to my seat in row 2 so I can grab my water bottle and backpack. Like 10 other people, I have been in first class with you for this flight."
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    The Most Important Person On The Plane: "OH, FINE." She lowered her arm and let me move another 18 inches forward so I could get back to my seat. Me and my seatmate in 2D looked at each other and both rolled our eyes.
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