{"id":122413,"date":"2023-12-20T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=122413"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:01:12","slug":"passenger-defended-after-refusing-to-switch-seats-with-married-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/travel\/passenger-defended-after-refusing-to-switch-seats-with-married-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger defended after refusing to switch seats with married couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Plane passenger, 45, is applauded for REFUSING to switch to a middle seat so a wife could sit next to her husband (and even her SPOUSE was on his side)<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An unknown passenger, 45, took to Reddit to share his experience traveling<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He revealed that a husband and wife asked him to sit in the middle of them<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When he declined, they became angry\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A passenger has been fiercely defended after he refused to switch seats with a married couple because the wife didn&#8217;t want to sit in the middle seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous man, 45, took to Reddit to share his experience traveling while sitting in a window seat and next to a husband and wife. He admitted that he declined to swap sweats with the woman whom was sitting in the middle seat.<\/p>\n<p>His confession reignited a heated conversation surrounding travel etiquette after a frequent flyer slammed an &#8216;entitled&#8217; plane passenger who demanded she switch to his middle seat\u00a0on an 11-hour flight so he could sit next to his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The frequent flyer questioned if he was in the wrong in a thread titled, &#8216;Am I the A**hole,&#8217; for refusing to swap with the woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140393-12882279-image-a-57_1703011834720.jpg\" height=\"234\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A passenger has been fiercely defended after he refused to switch seats with a married couple because the wife didn&#8217;t want to sit in the middle seat<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140479-12882279-image-a-65_1703011955138.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The anonymous man, 45, took to Reddit to share his experience traveling while sitting in a window seat and next to a husband and wife (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8216;I (m45) was seated at the window seat in the plane. A couple boarded and the wife sat down in the middle seat with the husband at the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After settling in, the wife leans over towards me with a sweet smile and says, &#8220;Would you be a darling and switch seats with me? I really can&#8217;t fly well in a middle seat.&#8221; So I leaned towards her and asked if that was her partner, to which she said, &#8220;Yes it&#8217;s my husband.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told her that I would never want to come between a husband and wife but I was more than happy to help accommodate by switching with him so I would sit in the aisle and the two if then could figure it out amongst themselves.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, this solution wasn&#8217;t good enough for the woman &#8211; who claimed that her husband wouldn&#8217;t sit in the middle seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She then continued to beg the 45-year-old passenger to switch sweats with her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8221;Oh my husband would never sit in the middle or at a window&#8230; so maybe you can do a woman a favor and switch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told her that I really apologize but I won&#8217;t do it. Moments later I hear her yelling at her husband in another language (which I am fluent in) that, &#8220;The jerk wont switch seats so you got to switch with me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He ends up switching and leans over with a smile and says that his wife switched with him because she has diarrhea and needs the aisle in case she must run,&#8217; he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140373-12882279-image-m-66_1703011958630.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140389-12882279-image-m-67_1703011972335.jpg\" height=\"86\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140383-12882279-image-m-68_1703011982956.jpg\" height=\"89\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140385-12882279-image-m-69_1703011996726.jpg\" height=\"111\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/18\/79140375-12882279-image-m-70_1703012007936.jpg\" height=\"85\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>People flooded the comments section and slammed the woman for begging another passenger to switch seats while praising the 45-year-old for putting his foot down<\/p>\n<p>People flooded the comments section and slammed the woman for begging another passenger to switch seats while praising the 45-year-old for putting his foot down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person said: &#8216;Not the a**hole. Jerks do this on purpose thinking they can strong arm you. Sit where you paid and don\u2019t trade unless it\u2019s better for you and you want to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019d have answered that old man back in his language, \u201cYour wife is a bully, enjoy her diarrhea.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: DailyMail.com Columnist Jaci Stephen&#8217;s reveals why she ALWAYS refuses to switch plane seats\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/14\/61733719-12467801-image-a-21_1693749312910.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Someone else commented: &#8216;Hah. My spouse and I often sit opposite each other or in front\/behind each other because we both prefer aisles. Never a problem to sit apart for a few hours. Not the a**hole by the way.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not the a**hole. I hope she made it to the bathroom in time,&#8217; someone else wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One user said: &#8216;Not the a**hole &#8211; you\u2019re under no obligation to switch seats on a plane. You bought the ticket that you presumably wanted, and they could have done the same.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not the a**hole. Very awkward request to ask you to sit between them. No thank you,&#8217; someone else wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past, a frequent flyer has revealed she refused to switch her window seat with an &#8216;entitled&#8217; passenger who wanted to sit next to his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed woman took to Reddit to share how she declined to move to a middle seat during an 11-hour flight from New York to Cairo, Egypt, so the man sitting next to her could sit beside his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous woman shared her story on the social media platform as a way to rant about the man under a thread titled, &#8216;EntitledPeople,&#8217; prompting others on the web to slam the man for asking someone else to switch to a lower-quality seat so he could be happy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The denial comes months after one man sparked furious debate when he refused to give up his first-class seat for his boss,\u00a0despite using his own credit card points to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, DailyMail.com&#8217;s Jaci Stephen even offered up her view, and confessed that she &#8216;absolutely refuses&#8217; to swap seats, no matter how angry the passenger requesting to switch may get.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-12882279\/plane-passenger-debate-seats-switch-couple.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Plane passenger, 45, is applauded for REFUSING to switch to a middle seat so a wife could sit next to her husband (and even her <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/travel\/passenger-defended-after-refusing-to-switch-seats-with-married-couple\/\" title=\"Passenger defended after refusing to switch seats with married couple\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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