Plane passenger refuses to give up their assigned seat after entitled mother tries to sneakily steal their window seat: ‘"I’m not responsible for your poor planning"’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Apr 22, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Airplanes feel fake. You're telling me I'm in a metal tube in the sky, 30,000 feet above land, and I'm supposed to be okay with that? Yeah, so what if cars and trains are more dangerous? At least they're not, again, 30,000 feet in the sky. Maybe I'm just afraid of heights, but you'll always catch me booking a seat that best helps my anxiety, and I'm entitled to do so. The plane passenger in this next story books a window seat specifically to soothe their anxiety during flights, but an entitled mother thinks that her getting the best seat in the house is more important than someone getting what they paid for.

How many entitled plane passengers does it have to take until folks understand that successful seat-switching stories are the exception, not the rule? When someone is clearly seeking a better seat and obviously didn't plan ahead to support their weak excuses for switching, you show them the door. Well, maybe not the airplane door…

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  • Adults often hide their entitled behavior by using their children as excuses. The woman on this flight claims she wanted the plane passenger's window seat because she wanted to sit next to her child, but the issue here isn't the reason—it's the expectation. Nobody needs to do anything for anyone, and she assumed the passenger was unnecessarily selfish when in reality, they require that seat to remain calm.

  • "I hope you feel good about making a little girl cry.""
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  • "AITJ for not giving up my seat?"

    For some context, I was flying home last week after visiting my sister. I booked my ticket a month in advance and paid extra for a window seat because I get anxious on planes,
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  • and being able to look outside really helps me stay calm. When I got to my row, there was a woman sitting in my seat. Her young daughter, maybe 6 or 7, was in the middle seat next to her. I politely said, "Hey, sorry, but I think that's my seat."
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  • She didn't even look up, then she said: "Oh, I was hoping you wouldn't mind switching. My seat is a few rows back, in the middle, but I really want to sit with my daughter."
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  • I said, "I'm sorry, I understand that, but I booked this seat on purpose. I have anxiety, and I really need the window."
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  • She now got angry at me for some reason. "Seriously? It's a kid. You can't sit in a middle seat for a couple of hours so a mother can stay with her child?"
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  • I said, "Look, I get it. But I paid extra for this seat, and I have a real reason I need it. You can ask someone else to switch."
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  • Then she stood up and snapped, "Unbelievable. Selfish people like you ruin everything. I hope you feel good about making a little girl cry."
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  • Her daughter wasn't even crying - just quietly coloring. I said, "I'm not responsible for your poor planning. If it was that important, you should've arranged seats together before the flight."
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  • A flight attendant came over and asked what was going on. The woman tried to make me sound like a monster, but I calmly explained I had this seat booked and wasn't giving it up. The
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  • attendant checked my ticket and asked the woman to move. She did (all while loudly muttering things like, "Some people have no soul.")
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  • I felt awkward the whole flight, but I also knew I wasn't in the wrong. So... am I the j 3. ?
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  • ActiveDinner3497 I flew last week and we had several families make a request to move seats so they could sit together. However, they did this through the stewardess, who then asked via intercom for volunteers. That's the right way to request it, not be a one-off hole like this woman was.
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  • Visible_Inevitable41 NTJ. Kid could have gone back with mother. Mom wanted the better seats.
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  • songwrtr I don't confront someone in my seat. I take it to the flight attendant and let them confront that person. I have nothing to say to person who wants my seat. It is mine. I bought it. My ticket says as much. I just look at them with a
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  • blank stare and let the flight attendant handle it. I can swear at them and call them names but why? I remain non aggressive and let the flight attendant be the bad guy. I am an aisle person. I don't like to be trapped in the middle or at a window. I can feel kind of car sick in those seats.
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  • Previous_Ad_2193 This whole issue would go away if everyone 100% refused to change seats no matter what
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  • 2Dogs3Tents Nope, not even close to the j This entitled POS thought she could strong arm you into getting her way. Good for you for standing firm.
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