People You Wish Would’ve Just Stayed Home

I had a situation on an airplane that charged extra to book certain seats. My sister and I were traveling with our young granddaughters, and we booked window and middle seats in the same row so that both girls could have window seats but we would still be close together.

We were all seated when a man and his son (who looked to be in his late teens or early twenties) approached.

Man: *To my sister* “You need to move so my son can have the window seat.”

Sister: “I paid extra so my granddaughter could sit by the window.”

The man became enraged, demanding that my niece move so that his grown son could sit there. I asked the flight attendant if there were two seats together with a window seat since the flight wasn’t full. The row DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THEM was open, and the attendant offered to seat them there.

Easy peasy? No. Of course not.

The son finally just sat down in the aisle seat next to my sister. Lucky me, his extremely hostile father sat next to me. He began to loudly complain about “That woman!”

Me: “‘That woman’ is my sister, it’s my niece’s first flight, and we did pay extra for window seats.”

He grumbled for four hours straight. My sister, on the other hand, had a delightful visit with the son, who certainly had more grace and manners than his (overly) devoted dad.