Middle-aged passenger tries to claim a 5'5" teen’s aisle seat, gets shut down by staff, and ends up stuck in the row behind her for 11 hours: ‘The flight attendant told him his ticket was for the seat behind me’

Airplane seating turns dramatic when a middle-aged man tries to bark a teenage girl out of her assigned aisle seat and ends up getting fact-checked by a boarding pass.  

He marches up, looks at a half-sleepy kid in baggy clothes, and decides volume is a strategy. Orders her to move, throws in insults, and even threatens to drag her out, all before doing the radical thing of checking his actual ticket. She holds her ground, makes it very clear that touching her would be a terrible idea, and refuses to play show me your papers for some random stranger in coach. Enter the flight attendant, who needs about ten seconds and two pieces of cardboard to unravel his entire performance. Her seat is correct. His seat is behind hers.  

In one breath, he goes from loud and confident to red-faced and suddenly fascinated with the floor. He shuffles into the row behind, too embarrassed to make eye contact, while she laughs and settles back in to nap. Eleven hours beside his own ego sounds like punishment enough, especially with the bonus mercy of her not reclining into his space.  

Some people board a plane and think the assigned seat comes with staff, not neighbors.

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