'I kept this up for the 4 hour flight': Passenger gets even after entitled seatmate takes up too much space on flight

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 7, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Who you end up sitting next to on a plane while traveling solo is truly a game of luck. Sometimes, you'll board the plane and the seat next to you will remain empty for 90% of the boarding process until some random annoying dude who was running late makes it onto the plane at the last minute. Other times, you're seated next to a screaming child who is on his very first flight. 

Here, we have a passenger who had to deal with an entitled seatmate. This guy quickly took over both armrests and encroached upon the personal space of the Redditor. We have to give this Redditor some credit for refusing to allow this behavior for the full duration of a four hour flight. Instead, they got even in their own petty way.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about petty ways fast food workers got back at their entitled customers.

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    Entitled manspreading on an airplane? Great, because I feel like being petty.
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    On a recent flight with a friend, she had the window seat and I had the middle. We were in
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    cattle class, so there wasn't a ton of room available. Entitled manspreader boarded, sat down and immediately spread out.
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    Legs wide, arms covering the whole of both armrests. I'm aware the mature thing to do is say something to him about space or the armrest
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    being mine, but after a day of travel I was annoyed and feeling petty.
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    Two minutes after he settled in, he leaned forward to get something and I spread out. I'm an early 40's slender female,
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    so I couldn't spread out the way he did, but I could lean to my right using the full armrest and
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    having my body kind of turned in a way he'd have to consciously avoid bumping my shoulder or leg. It apparently made
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    him uncomfortable to bump into me, so he ended up shifting around and eventually sitting with his ankles crossed and his hands in his lap.
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    While I'm usually more mature and accommodating, something about his entitled spread out when he first sat down rubbed me the wrong way. I
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    remained in that position, or leaning forward with elbows sticking out when I was looking out of the window. I noticed he tried
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    to look a few times, but I made sure he couldn't see through my head. I kept this up for the 4 hour flight. It feels like a
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    pointless, immature victory today, but the pettiness felt great in the moment.
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    Edited to add: -He appeared approximately 5'8" based on his height when we were both standing. He was slightly
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    overweight, but not what I would consider fand certainly not big enough to unavoidably spill over.
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    -Even if he had these weirdly splayed hips or giant b people keep mentioning, how does that make him entitled to the middle seat armrests?
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    -Manspreading refers to men who take up more space than necessary, encroaching on the space
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    of the person next to them. It does NOT include the normal physical posture of a man sitting with his legs apart.
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