Man slammed over annoying plane habit that 'a lot of tall people do' – Express
Describing himself as “tall”, he admitted that his knees often ache when forced into the same position for an extended period. He said on Reddit: “I usually try to take a walk around the airport before flights to stretch my legs, but neglected to this time. It was Spirit airlines so even less legroom than usual.”
“About half an hour after take-off I found my left knee inching to the side for the sweet relief of open space, specifically, the no-man’s-land in between seats, level with the shared armrest.
“But I wasn’t paying attention to my knee the entire time. I’ll concede it’s possible that at some point I was occupying space that rightfully belonged to my window seat neighbour. All was well for 2 hours.”
However, the situation took a turn when the woman in her 20s called over a flight attendant to complain about him invading her space. She reportedly said something like “Could you tell him to keep his ****ing leg in his own ****ing seat.”
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Realising she was referring to him, he quickly withdrew his leg, feeling deeply embarrassed.”She added something about “his enormous ****” — my understanding was that it was meant to be a snide reference to the idea that spreading your legs is about male genital comfort. But she wasn’t speaking very clearly, and the flight attendant, in her 50s, didn’t seem to understand her.
“The flight attendant asked her some sort of clarifying question but she didn’t answer and eventually the attendant went away.As soon as the flight attendant left, he started “frantically apologising” – but he says she wasn’t having any of it and instead blanked him. He said: “[The other] woman said she had some extra space on her side I could use, but then promptly went to sleep. Oh well.
“I usually try to take a walk around the airport before flights to stretch my legs, but neglected to this time. It was Spirit airlines so even less legroom than usual. I tried again to apologise to window seat woman, but again she ignored me. I went from embarrassed to confused.
“I kept replaying it in my head, wondering why she didn’t simply ask me to move my knee instead of calling over the attendant. “I usually try to take a walk around the airport before flights to stretch my legs, but neglected to this time. It was Spirit airlines so even less legroom than usual.”
“She ignored me the whole rest of the flight and I ignored her. I got a good but painful workout of whatever muscle it is that keeps your knees together.” Commenting on his post, one user said: “I’m a more average man at 5’11 and I always get an aisle seat or business class for the extra room.
“I usually try to take a walk around the airport before flights to stretch my legs, but neglected to this time. It was Spirit airlines so even less legroom than usual. The window lady called the attendant for her protection, but also to shame you into compliance, and rightly so, you should be ashamed of your behaviour. It sucks to be in your position, due to airline passenger abuse, but you are knowingly doing so without improving your situation either, then imposing onto those women.”
Another user concurred: “You knew you were in her space and hoped she’d say nothing and make herself smaller and uncomfortable so you’d feel better. She probably paid extra for the window seat so she could be comfortable and you felt entitled to occupy her space.
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“I’m a super small girl who travels a lot and men do this to me all the time and I have scrunch myself up in my seat so I’m not touching them. “I usually try to take a walk around the airport before flights to stretch my legs, but neglected to this time. It was Spirit airlines so even less legroom than usual.”
“You could have asked if it was alright for you to spread out – I’ve had tall men ask me before and that super small gesture makes me feel so much better. I’m never going to say no, I’ve even switched seats. Yes, she handled it poorly and she might be an a***hole too but you’re the a***hole.”.
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