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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
It certainly would have the been the right thing to do but I also don't think the woman needed to be a raving bitch when he said no. I think he's right that a married couple ought to be able to tolerate 90 minutes of not-total-togetherness without a meltdown.
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Oh dear... You just reminded me...
On the LAX-Chicago leg of my recent trip north, total Mom meltdown one row behind me. Mom and Dad travelling with 2 lap children (not twins - one baby, one toddler). Sitting across the row from each other (obviously, each with one kid). Mom freaks out immediately upon reaching seats because the airline sold the middle seat in her row (overbooked flight; she somehow thought that the airline was just going to refuse to sell all seats; yeah, right). She goes on and on to flight attendants about there not being enough oxygen masks and sale of the middle seat was "against the law". Makes people play musical chairs for 10 minutes trying to reconfigure so that there would be enough oxygen masks (I never turned around and asked her whether she was under the impression that there were 3 or 4 oxygen masks per set of seats; I was trying not to engage). At least 2 people ended up changing seats and in the end she was in the row right behind me and the husband with his lap kid was in the row behind them. A ridiculously nice older man ended up next to the ranting woman. He played with her lap child and when she was still raving about oxygen masks as we taxied towards take-off, he told her the child could have his mask if anything happened. My questions/comments:
1. Did she really think that for the price of her ticket, the airline was going to agree not to seel the seat next to her? What the hell planet is she from?
2. Buy the fucking other seat if you care that much. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck. You fucking bitch. You fucking cheap bitch.
3. With the exception of the too nice guy you ended up with next to you (through no good traveler karma of your own), no one was moving for you because they felt nice. They moved in an attempt (futile) to get you to shut the fuck up. You fucking bitch.
4. I guess that is all.
One more fuck for the road. I think my blood pressure went up writing this post.
